I have a piece of code here that is supposed to return the least common element in a list of elements, ordered by commonality: def getSingle(arr): from collections import Counter c = Counte...

The first way works for a list or a string; the second way only works for a list, because slice assignment isn't allowed for strings. Other than that I think the only difference is speed: it looks like it's a little …

Jan 12, 2009 · A List uses an internal array to handle its data, and automatically resizes the array when adding more elements to the List than its current capacity, which makes it more easy to use than an …

Nov 29, 2016 · (List<Customer>)(Object)list; you must be sure that at runtime the list contains nothing but Customer objects. Critics say that such casting indicates something wrong with your code; you …

Oct 5, 2017 · @Sandy Chapman: List.of does return some ImmutableList type, its actual name is just a non-public implementation detail. If it was public and someone cast it to List again, where was the …

Sep 17, 2016 · Possible Duplicate: Get difference from two lists in Python What is a simplified way of doing this? I have been trying on my own, and I can't figure it out. list a and list b, the new list should

Feb 2, 2014 · Best in what way, and is this remove elements based on their position or their value?

Stephane: Let me rephrase it: if x in list is not the thing that people complain not being a built-in function. They complain about the fact that there is not explicit way to find the first occurrence of something in …

List comprehensions took 25.2 seconds and itemgetter took 28.8 seconds. I personally find itemgetter useful in some contexts where performance isn't as important but where it happens to produce easier …

list_of_values doesn't have to be a list; it can be set, tuple, dictionary, numpy array, pandas Series, generator, range etc. and isin() and query() will still work.