We’ve seen that the items in a list can be numbers or strings. Lists can contain other lists! We will commonly refer to these as two-dimensional (2D) lists.
Once more, let’s look at a class height example:
- Noelle is 61 inches tall
- Ava is 70 inches tall
- Sam is 67 inches tall
- Mia is 64 inches tall
Previously, we saw that we could create a list representing both Noelle’s name and height:
noelle = ["Noelle", 61]
We can put several of these lists into one list, such that each entry in the list represents a student and their height:
heights = [["Noelle", 61], ["Ava", 70], ["Sam", 67], ["Mia", 64]]
We will often find that a two-dimensional list is a very good structure for representing grids such as games like tic-tac-toe.
#A 2d list with three lists in each of the indices. tic_tac_toe = [ ["X","O","X"], ["O","X","O"], ["O","O","X"] ]
Let’s practice creating our own 2D list!
Instructions
A new student named "Vik"
has joined our class. Vik is 68
inches tall. Add a sublist to the end of the heights
list that represents Vik and his height.
Create a two-dimensional list called ages
where each sublist contains a student’s name and their age. Use the following data:
"Aaron"
is15
"Dhruti"
is16