lincoln rutledge a écrit :
> I'm having trouble figuring out the difference between a string and a
> list.
['R', 'e', 'a', 'l', 'l', 'y', ' ', '?', ' ', 'S', 'e', 'e', 'm', 's', '
', 'q', 'u', 'i', 't', 'e', ' ', 'o', 'b', 'v', 'i', 'o', 'u', 's', ' ',
't', 'o', ' ', 'm', 'e', '.']
> I know that:
> string = "foo bar"
>
> is a list of characters
No. It's a string. Python doesn't have a "character" type.
>, "foo bar", and string[0] is "f".
Yes. And ?
> while:
>
> list = ["foo", "bar"]
> and list[0] is "foo".
So ?
> strings have methods like string.count("f") returns 1. What methods do
> lists have?
Open your interactive Python interpreter and type
>>> help(list)
> Is it a similar class to string?
Not exactly. Both are sequences, that's all. FWIW, try this:
"foo"[0] = "b"
HTH
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