List Values

There are several ways to create a new list. The simplest is to enclose the elements in square brackets ( [ and ]).

[10, 20, 30, 40]
["spam", "bungee", "swallow"]

The first example is a list of four integers. The second is a list of three strings. As we said above, the elements of a list don’t have to be the same type.

As you would expect, we can also assign list values to variables and pass lists as parameters to functions.

Check your understanding

    rec-5-1: A list can contain only integer items.
  • False
  • Yes, unlike strings, lists can consist of any type of Python data.
  • True
  • Lists are heterogeneous, meaning they can have different types of data.
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