Building lists

[Mark Lawrence]

On 20/10/2014 20:49, Seymore4Head wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:40:18 +0100, MRAB <python at 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?
>

Python doesn't have commands and no.  Perhaps you'd care to (re)read the 
tutorial.

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Mark Lawrence