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List Methods in Python

Kritika Rajput

In this post, we will learn about the list Methods.

  1. Remove

  2. Pop

  3. clear

Remove Method:

The remove() method searches for the given element in the list and remove first matching element.

Syntax :-

list.remove(element)

Remove() Parameters:-

  • The remove() method takes a single element as an argument and remove it from the list.

  • If the element doesn't exits, it throws ValueError:list.remove(x): X not in list exception.

Return value from remove():

The remove() doesn't return any value.


Example:-

list1=[10,20,30,40]
print(list1)
list1.remove(30)
print(list1)

Output:

[10, 20, 30, 40]
[10, 20, 40]
 

Pop Method:

The pop() method removes and returns the element at the given index from the list.

The syntax of the pop() method is:-

list.pop(index)

pop() parameters:

  • The pop() method takes a single argument(index).

  • The argument passed to the method is optional. If not passed, the default index -1 is passed as an argument(index of the last item).

  • If the index passed to the method is not in rang, it throws IndexError:pop index out of range exception.

Return Value from pop():

The pop() method returns the item present at the given index. This item is also removed

from the list.


Example:

list1 = [10,20,30,40]
print(list1)
list1.pop(3)
print(list1)

Output:

[10, 20, 30, 40]
[10, 20, 30]
 

Clear Method:

The clear() method removes all items from the list.

The syntax of clear() method is:

list.clear()

Clear() parameters:

The clear() method doesn't take any parameters.


Return Value from clear():

The clear() method only empties the given list. it doesn't return any value.


Example:

list1 = [1,2,3,4]
print(list1)
list1.clear()
print(list1)

Output:

[1, 2, 3, 4]
[]
 

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