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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Mutability

Posted by john knight
john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 Points

What makes a variable and a list different?

What makes a variable and a list different?, Thaanks

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
215,954 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
215,954 Points

A variable is like a box, you can put things into it. What kind of thing you put into the variable is up to you.

A list is an example of something you might put into that box, as are integer, string, custom object, set, and so on.

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 67,986 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 67,986 Points

Lately, I've been migrating to the definitions:

  • A variable is a label that points to an object. That is, the right-side of an assignment creates the object, the left-side of the assignment is a label that points to that object.
  • A list is a iterable collections of labels where each label points to an object.
john knight
john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 Points

Thank you Guys! Really appreciate is though