Adding and removing elements from a List

A list doesn’t have to be final. We can add and remove elements if we want. The main list methods we’ll use are

• append
• del
• insert

append

append will append an element to a list.

students = ['brent', 'paul', 'andrea']
students.append('late person')

print(students)

del

del will delete an element from the list at the given index or index range.

Info: Remember a list index starts at 0

In the example below, we should be deleting ‘paul’ which is at index 1.

students = ['brent', 'paul', 'andrea']
del students[1]

print(students)

You can check the documentation for other operations that can be performed.

insert

Similar to del, insert will insert an element at a given index location. This can be useful if we want to add an element inbetween other existing values.

students = ['brent', 'paul', 'andrea']
students.insert(1, 'inserted person')

print(students)