For the second question the "remove" is better for me :
list.remove(x)  because I don't know the index of x in the list. (I
don't know even if the list contains x)
Thank you again!

On 27 oct, 22:29, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Marusia,
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:02 AM, m.rebolledo
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > how to do the union of several lists (more than two)?
>
> Lists are multisets, so I assume you mean to combine several lists
> into one, while retaining duplicate elements. You could do so using
> the list concatenation operator "+":
>
> sage: L1 = [2, 3, 5, 7, 11]
> sage: L2 = ["a", "b", "c", 13]
> sage: L3 = [1/2, 1/3, 1/4]
> sage: L1 + L2 + L3
> [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 'a', 'b', 'c', 13, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4]
>
> Via the list method extend():
>
> sage: L = []
> sage: L.extend(L1)
> sage: L.extend(L2)
> sage: L.extend(L3)
> sage: L
> [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 'a', 'b', 'c', 13, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4]
>
> Or use the Sage built-in function flatten():
>
> sage: flatten([L1, L2, L3])
> [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 'a', 'b', 'c', 13, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4]
>
> If you really want to remove duplicate elements in the final combined
> list, use Set():
>
> sage: L1 = [1, 2]
> sage: L2 = [2, 3, 4]
> sage: L3 = ["a", "b"]
> sage: Set(L1 + L2 + L3)
> {'a', 1, 2, 3, 4, 'b'}
> sage: list(Set(L1 + L2 + L3))
> ['a', 1, 2, 3, 4, 'b']
>
> > and how to
> > remove some elements of the lists?
>
> Use the operator del:
>
> sage: L
> [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 'a', 'b', 'c', 13, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4]
> sage: L[0]
> 2
> sage: del L[0]; L
> [3, 5, 7, 11, 'a', 'b', 'c', 13, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4]
> sage: L[-1]
> 1/4
> sage: del L[-1]; L
> [3, 5, 7, 11, 'a', 'b', 'c', 13, 1/2, 1/3]
>
> > I know that it is probably
> > elementary but I did not find it in the help... :(
>
> See the Python tutorial [1] for some introductory materials on using
> lists. This page [2] and this page [3] provide detailed information on
> operations on lists.
>
> [1]http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#lists
>
> [2]http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-unico...
>
> [3]http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#typesseq-mutable
>
> --
> Regards
> Minh Van Nguyen

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