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-Creating a linear array:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| x = linspace(0, 2*pi, 50)|}
+Creating an list\\
+{\ex \lstinline| empty=[]|}
-Plotting two variables:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| plot(x, sin(x))|}
+Create a filled list\\
+{\ex \lstinline| nonempty = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1.234] |}
-Plotting two lists of equal length x, y:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| plot(x, y)|}
+Accessing a list\\
+{\ex \lstinline| nonempty[0] |}
+{\ex \lstinline| nonempty[-1] |}
+
+Length of a list\\
+{\ex \lstinline| len(nonempty) |}
+
+Append an element to a list\\
+{\ex \lstinline| nonempty.append('python') |}
+
+Remove elements of a list\\
+{\ex \lstinline| del(nonempty[1] |}
+{\ex \lstinline| nonempty.remove(100) |}
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+Hello friends and welcome to the tutorial on getting started with
+lists.
+
+ {{{ Show the slide containing title }}}
+
+ {{{ Show the slide containing the outline slide }}}
+
+In this tutorial we will be getting acquainted with a python data
+structure called lists. We will learn ::
+
+ * How to create lists
+ * Structure of lists
+ * Access list elements
+ * Append elements to lists
+ * Deleting elements from lists
+
+List is a compound data type, it can contain data of other data
+types. List is also a sequence data type, all the elements are in
+order and there order has a meaning.
+
+We will first create an empty list with no elements. On your IPython
+shell type ::
+
+ empty = []
+ type(empty)
+
+
+This is an empty list without any elements.
+
+* Filled lists
+
+Lets now define a list, nonempty and fill it with some random elements.
+
+nonempty = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1.234]
+
+Thus the simplest way of creating a list is typing out a sequence
+of comma-separated values (items) between square brackets.
+All the list items need not have the same data type.
+
+
+
+As we can see lists can contain different kinds of data. In the
+previous example 'spam' and 'eggs' are strings and 100 and 1.234
+integer and float. Thus we can put elements of heterogenous types in
+lists. Thus list themselves can be one of the element types possible
+in lists. Thus lists can also contain other lists. Example ::
+
+ list_in_list=[[4,2,3,4],'and', 1, 2, 3, 4]
+
+We access list elements using the number of index. The
+index begins from 0. So for list nonempty, nonempty[0] gives the
+first element, nonempty[1] the second element and so on and
+nonempty[3] the last element. ::
+
+ nonempty[0]
+ nonempty[1]
+ nonempty[3]
+
+We can also access the elememts from the end using negative indices ::
+
+ nonempty[-1]
+ nonempty[-2]
+ nonempty[-4]
+
+-1 gives the last element which is the 4th element , -2 second to last and -4 gives the fourth
+from last element which is first element.
+
+We can append elements to the end of a list using append command. ::
+
+ nonempty.append('onemore')
+ nonempty
+ nonempty.append(6)
+ nonempty
+
+As we can see non empty appends 'onemore' and 6 at the end.
+
+
+
+Using len function we can check the number of elements in the list
+nonempty. In this case it being 6 ::
+
+ len(nonempty)
+
+
+
+Just like we can append elements to a list we can also remove them.
+There are two ways of doing it. One is by using index. ::
+
+ del(nonempty[1])
+
+
+
+deletes the element at index 1, i.e the second element of the
+list, 'eggs'. The other way is removing element by content. Lets say
+one wishes to delete 100 from nonempty list the syntax of the command
+should be ::
+
+ nonempty.remove(100)
+
+but what if their were two 100's. To check that lets do a small
+experiment. ::
+
+ nonempty.append('python')
+ nonempty
+ nonempty.remove('python')
+ nonempty
+
+If we check a now we will see that the first occurence 'spam' is removed
+thus remove removes the first occurence of the element in the sequence
+and leaves others untouched.
+
+
+{{{Slide for Summary }}}
+
+
+In this tutorial we came across a sequence data type called lists. ::
+
+ * We learned how to create lists.
+ * How to access lists.
+ * Append elements to list.
+ * Delete Element from list.
+ * And Checking list length.
+
+
+
+{{{ Sponsored by Fossee Slide }}}
+
+This tutorial was created as a part of FOSSEE project.
+
+I hope you found this tutorial useful.
+
+Thank You
+
+
+ * Author : Amit Sethi
+ * First Reviewer :
+ * Second Reviewer : Nishanth