Lists are a sequence of items that live side-by-side in memory, like a shopping list on a piece of paper. Lists also provide operations (called methods) that allow you to perform actions on them.

Python comes with a collection of built-in data types that make common data-wrangling operations easy. Among them is the list, a simple but versatile collection type.

A list is a collection of variables. Let’s use the example of a string. A string is a variable that stores a string of alphanumeric characters and symbols. This is used to store such things as names ...