How to Add Elements to a List in Python (append, extend and insert)

Posted Jun 11, 2020

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When working with lists in Python, you will often want to add new elements to the list.

The Python list data type has three methods for adding elements:

• append() - appends a single element to the list.
• extend() - appends elements of an iterable to the list.
• insert() - inserts a single item at a given position of the list.

All three methods modify the list in place and return None.

Python List append()

The append() method adds a single element to the end of the list .

The syntax of the append() method is as follows:

list.append(element) 

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Where, element is the element to be added to the list.

Here is an example:characters = ['Tokyo', 'Lisbon', 'Moscow', 'Berlin'] 

characters.append('Nairobi')

print('Updated list:', characters)

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Updated list: ['Tokyo', 'Lisbon', 'Moscow', 'Berlin', 'Nairobi']

The element parameter can be an object of any data type:

odd_numbers = [1, 3, 5, 7] 

even_numbers = [2, 4, 6]

odd_numbers.append(even_numbers)

print('Updated list:', odd_numbers)

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