I understand that they are both essentially the same thing. But in terms of creating an empty list or dict, are there any differences?

Nov 2, 2010 · When reading, list is a reference to the original list, and list[:] shallow-copies the list. When assigning, list (re)binds the name and list[:] slice-assigns, replacing what was previously …

I have a piece of code here that is supposed to return the least common element in a list of elements, ordered by commonality: def getSingle(arr): from collections import Counter c = …

Google Sheets supports cell formulas typically found in most desktop spreadsheet packages. Functions can be used to create formulas that manipulate data and calculate strings and …

The first, [:], is creating a slice (normally often used for getting just part of a list), which happens to contain the entire list, and thus is effectively a copy of the list. The second, list(), is using the …

Jan 27, 2012 · list[a:b:c], a is the starting index, b is the ending index and c is the optional step size. This will give you a list starting at index a (inclusive) and ending at index b (exclusive) …

The reason you're getting the unhashable type: 'list' exception is because k = list[0:j] sets k to be a "slice" of the list, which is logically another, often shorter, list.

Oct 5, 2012 · By using a : colon in the list index, you are asking for a slice, which is always another list. In Python you can assign values to both an individual item in a list, and to a slice …

The first way works for a list or a string; the second way only works for a list, because slice assignment isn't allowed for strings. Other than that I think the only difference is speed: it looks …

Sep 9, 2019 · to_list () is a method of Pandas dataframes that returns a list representation of the dataframe. Although both methods return the same output, their differences lie in their origins …