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6.

100L Recitation 5 – 14 October 2022

Reminders:
- MQ5 Monday 10/17
- PS 2 due Wednesday 10/19
- Remember to complete checkoff!

Lecture 9 & 10 Recap – Lists, Tuples & Mutability

1. Tuples
 These are ordered sequences of objects. These objects can be of any
type.
 immutable, i.e cannot be changed once created
 can be indexed
 Iterable - can loop over them
 you can slice a tuple giving you a subset of the original tuple
tuple1 = (1, 2, 3, 4)
len(tuple1) # gives you the length of the
tuple
tuple1[0:2] # gives (1,2)
 Functions often return tuples as a way of returning multiple values
Return a, b # last line of the function where
a, b is the tuple (a, b)

2. Lists
 ordered sequence of objects
 can be indexed & sliced similarly to tuples
 Iterable - can loop over them
 mutable, i.e. can be changed/modified after being created
o For example given the two lists:
list1 = [1,2,3, “MIT”]
list2 = [4,5,6]
o You can change the element at index 0 with
list1[0] = 5
o add an element to the end
list1.append(5)
o add all elements of list2 to the end of list1 with
list1.extend(list2)
o remove an element at specific index with
del list1[index]
o remove element at the end
list1.pop()
o remove a specific element with
list1.remove(“MIT”)
 note that if an element appears multiple times, this
method will only remove the first occurrence of that
element
 if the element is not present, throws error
Useful Methods
 my_list.copy() # no mutation - returns copy
 my_list.reverse() # mutation
 sorted(my_list) # no mutation – returns sorted list
 my_list.sort() # mutation
 my_list.extend([x,y]) # mutation
 my_list[:] # makes clone
 my_list.remove(2) # removes the first occurance of 2 in the
list
 my_list.pop() # pops last element - mutation
 my_list.pop(2) # pops 3rd element
 my_list.insert(1, 7) # inserts 7 in the 2nd position -
mutation

Immutable vs Mutable Data structures

 Immutable data types: cannot change element value after assignment


o Examples of immutable data types we’ve seen:
 int
 float
 bool
 string
 tuple
 Mutable data types: can change element after assignment
o We can think of mutable objects as being assigned to a certain place in
memory. In this case, assigning a variable to a mutable object just
means that it points to that object in memory.
o Multiple variables can point to the same object in memory. This can be
problematic because mutating a variable will affect the other variables
that point to it. This is called aliasing.
o Examples of mutable data types we’ve seen:
 lists
 Dictionaries (have not seen)
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