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Peter DAmelio
Courses Plus Student 851 PointsList Range
How would you start to toss out the older numbers in the list? If you wanted to have only 10 numbers in a list and you kept writing to the list (11,12, so forth) but only wanted to keep ten in the list. How would you removes (1,2, so forth)
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherJust off the top of my head:
def add_to_list(lst, thing_to_add):
if len(lst) == 10:
lst.pop()
lst.append(thing_to_add)
Then call this once for each thing to add. You could modify if to take an iterable of things to add but then you'll need to do some length calculation before you start popping items and appending items, so it's more work. This modifies lst (or whatever it refers to) in place, so you'll want to be careful with it.