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diff --git a/getting_started_with_lists/script.rst b/getting_started_with_lists/script.rst index e5fd5b5..ee9ce1c 100644 --- a/getting_started_with_lists/script.rst +++ b/getting_started_with_lists/script.rst @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Start the ipython interpreter and first create an empty list with no elements. This is an empty list without any elements. -Let us now see how to define a non-empty list. +Lets define a non-empty list as: .. L4 :: @@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ Let us now see how to define a non-empty list. .. R5 -Thus the simplest way of creating a list is typing out a sequence +Thus, the simplest way of creating a list is typing out a sequence of comma-separated values (or items) between two square brackets. -As we can see lists can contain different kinds of data. In the +As we can see, lists can contain different kinds of data. In the previous example 'spam' and 'eggs' are strings whereas 100 and 1.234 are -integer and float respectively. Thus we can put elements of different datatypes in +integer and float respectively. Thus, we can put elements of different datatypes in lists including lists itself. This property makes lists heterogeneous data structures. @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ and -4 gives the fourth from the last which, in this case, is the first element. .. R10 -We can also append elements to the end of a list using the method ``append``. +We can also append elements to the end of a list using the ``append`` function. .. L10 :: @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Let us find out the length of the list 'nonempty'. .. R14 -Just like we can append elements to a list we can also remove them. +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. .. L14 @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ del gives us [1,2,3]. .. R19 -remove will give us [2,1,3]. Since it deletes the first occurence of what is +remove will give us [2,1,3]. Since it deletes the first occurrence of what is returned by x[2] which is 1. .. L20 |