Lists, Strings, and Mutability

>>> sample_list[3]
'Eric'
>>> print(sample_list)
['Graham', 'John', 'Terry', 'Eric', 'Terry', 'Michael']
>>> sample_string[8] = 'f'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
    sample_string[8] = 'f'
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
>>> 

>>> name = "Old Woman"
>>> person = name
>>> name = "Dennis"
>>> print(name)
Dennis
>>> print(person)
Old Woman

>>> dish = ["Spam", "Spam", "Spam", "Spam", "Spam", "Spam", "baked beans", "Spam", "Spam", "Spam", "Spam"]
>>> mr_buns_order = dish
>>> print(dish)
['Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'baked beans', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam']
>>> print(mr_buns_order)
['Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'baked beans', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam']
>>> dish[6] = "Spam"
>>> print(mr_buns_order)
['Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam']
>>> print(dish)
['Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam', 'Spam']

Working with Lists
len(some_list)
max(some_list)

>>> batch_sizes = [15, 6, 89, 34, 65, 35]
>>> max(batch_sizes)
89
>>> python_vareties = ['Burmese Python', 'African Rock Python', 'Ball Python', 'Reticulated Python', 'Angolan Python']
>>> max(python_varieties)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
    max(python_varieties)
NameError: name 'python_varieties' is not defined
>>> max(python_vareties)
'Reticulated Python'

sorted

>>> sorted(batch_sizes)
[6, 15, 34, 35, 65, 89]
>>> sorted(batch_sizes, reverse=True)
[89, 65, 35, 34, 15, 6]
>>> print(batch_sizes)
[15, 6, 89, 34, 65, 35]