[Tutor] Python beginner having troubles understanding word listsand character lists

[Alan Gauld]

"Daniel" <asmosis.asterix at gmail.com> wrote 

> I stumbled into lists of words and lists of characters. I have no
> explications in that book for those two and I didn't found some explications
> on the web. 

aListOfWords = ['one','word','or','many']
aListOfCharacters = ['a','s','d','f']

aStringOfCharacters = 'asdf'
aWord = aStringOfCharacters

Now what part do you not understand?

> Could you point me to a link or something where I can read about
> them? I don't seem to understand why they are used.

You use a list of words any time you want to process multiple words. 
For example a spelling checker may break a document into a list 
of words and compare each word to a reference list of correctly 
spelled words.

A list of characters is rarely used in Python since you can use 
a string in almost every case. 

You will find some more information in the "Raw Materials" topic 
of my tutorial.

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/