On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:40:18 +0100, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>On 2014-10-20 19:10, Seymore4Head wrote: >> I haven't had a lot of practice doing this. If anyone knows of a site >> I would appreciate it. >> >> Will Python work like this: >> I am trying to come up with an example and work to it. Say I want a >> Grocery list and it will have a maximum size of 50 items. >> >> I want to do this with one list. >> Make a list of 0-50. >> Then can I add to that list so the second item will hold something >> like cheese, eggs, milk. >> Say then I want to add the price of cheese, eggs and milk. >> Say then I want to add another list of price of cheese, eggs milk from >> another store. >> >> Can this be done starting with just a list of numbers from 0-50? >> Please no hints, just answer directly how it is done. >> >> for store in range (50): >> print store >> >> How can I add to store where it looks like this: >> (0,cheese, 1,eggs 2,milk , 3-50,blank for now) >> >The grocery list would be a list of the things you want to buy. > >There are a number of stores, so that would be a list of stores. For >each store you want the price of each item, so that would be a dict >where the key is the item and the value is the price of that item. That >means it would be a list of dicts. > >Does that help? No. I am pretty new to Python. 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? Do you have to know the number of items the list will have before making it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
