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meet python

Create simple Python lists

Let’s start with the following simple list of movie titles and work up from
there:
The Holy Grail

The Life of Brian

The Meaning of Life A short list of some
Monty Python movies

Here’s the same list written in a way that Python understands:

movies = ["The Holy Grail",
"The Life of Brian",
"The Meaning of Life"]

To turn the human-friendly list into a Python-friendly one, follow this four-
step process:

1 Convert each of the names into strings by surrounding the data with quotes.

2 Separate each of the list items from the next with a comma.

3 Surround the list of items with opening and closing square brackets.

4 Assign the list to an identifier (movies in the preceding code) using the
assignment operator (=).

It’s perfectly OK to put your list creation code all on one line, assuming, of
course, that you have room:

movies = ["The Holy Grail", "The Life of Brian", "The Meaning of Life"]

This works, too.

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