On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:40:50 +0000 (UTC), Denis McMahon <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:49:15 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote: > >> For starters I would like to know if you can make a single item list and >> then turn it into a 2 item list. Is there a command for that? > >Yes, it's called assignment. You can for example change a member of a >list from an string to a tuple such as ( string, number ): > >>>> x = [ "fred", "jim", "susan" ] >>>> x[x.index("jim")] = ( "jim", 11, ) >>>> print x >['fred', ('jim', 11), 'susan'] > >> Do you have to know the number of items the list will have before making >> it? > >No. See the append() method of the list object. Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list