Computer Programming

ENEE 101

Lec#17 (Sequences part 3)

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 Copying lists
Wrong way: list2 = list1

This part of
memory is
marked as
free

Proper ways:

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 Passing lists to functions 1/3

Example

Lists are mutable objects (like all objects). Simple variables are not mutable.

Output

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 Passing lists to functions 2/3

Output

lst is created to make list1

lst is updated to make list2

A new list is created to make list3

lst is updated to created list4

lst remains in memory although is not accessible outside the function add.
list1, list2, list4 will share the same id which is the id of lst. 4
Passing lists to functions 3/3

Problem solved

Output

list1, list2, list4 will differ and have different ids.

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 Returning a list

Initialization
required

As we know for
variables

list2 is:
[6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

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 Multidimensional lists - Intro

A nested list (a list of lists)

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 Two-dimensional lists

A two-dimensional list, called matrix, can be seen as a list of rows

and each row is a list.

A matrix is addressed with row and column indexes: matrix [ i ][ j ]

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 Create and print a matrix
This example creates the matrix row by row:

You can also print a matrix directly print(matrix).

There are other ways to print a matrix:
Same output
123
456
789

123
456
789
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Operation Examples

sum of all elements

sum per columns

Find the largest

sum row

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 Sorting Example

• This is sorting of a list containing lists (pairs of values, i.e.,

coordinates)
• The contained lists are treated as elements.

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