Oct 5, 2012 · By using a : colon in the list index, you are asking for a slice, which is always another list. In Python you can assign values to both an individual item in a list, and to a slice …

I have a piece of code here that is supposed to return the least common element in a list of elements, ordered by commonality: def getSingle(arr): from collections import Counter c = …

The first, [:], is creating a slice (normally often used for getting just part of a list), which happens to contain the entire list, and thus is effectively a copy of the list. The second, list(), is using the …

Nov 2, 2010 · When reading, list is a reference to the original list, and list[:] shallow-copies the list. When assigning, list (re)binds the name and list[:] slice-assigns, replacing what was previously …

The first way works for a list or a string; the second way only works for a list, because slice assignment isn't allowed for strings. Other than that I think the only difference is speed: it looks …

The extend function will append all elements of the parameter to the list. When doing foo += something you're modifying the list foo in place, thus you don't change the reference that the …

The notation List<?> means "a list of something (but I'm not saying what)". Since the code in test works for any kind of object in the list, this works as a formal method parameter. Using a type …

Sep 9, 2019 · Note that the question was about pandas tolist vs to_list. pandas.DataFrame.values returns a numpy array and numpy indeed has only tolist. Indeed, if you read the discussion …

Apr 15, 2016 · You cannot do this because List is an interface and you cannot create object of any interface or in other word you cannot instantiate any interface. Moreover, you can assign …

Mar 20, 2013 · It gets all the elements from the list (or characters from a string) but the last element. : represents going through the list -1 implies the last element of the list