Python list()

The list() function returns a list from an iterable.

Syntax

list(iterable)

The iterable parameter can be one of the following:

• A sequence type such as a string, range object, list, or tuple.
• An iterable container such as a list, tuple, dictionary, or set.
• An iterable object such as one returned by the iter() function.

If no iterable is passed, the list() function returns an empty list.

Example

The example below demonstrates how the list() function is used to create a list from a dictionary:

language_difficulties = list({"Python" : "Hard", "Java" : "Medium", "HTML" : "Easy"})
print(language_difficulties)

empty_list = list()
print(empty_list)

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This will print the following output:

['Python', 'Java', 'HTML']
[]

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