Python List Exercises – Practice Questions for Beginners

Practice Python list concepts with beginner-friendly exercises. Strengthen your understanding of list creation, indexing, slicing, and manipulation with hands-on coding problems and solutions.

Topic: lists

🧪 Coding Exercises

🟢 Beginner Exercises

1. List Creation and Indexing

1. Create a list called `fruits` with these elements: 'apple', 'banana', 'cherry', 'date'
2. Print the first and last elements using indexing
3. Print every alternate fruit starting from the second one

Requirements

• Use positive and negative indexing
• Use slicing for alternate elements

Input

No input required

Expected Output

First: apple
Last: date
Alternate: ['banana', 'date']

📚 Python Lists

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🟡 Intermediate Exercises

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1. List Slicing Operations

Given the list: numbers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
1. Create a new list with first 5 numbers
2. Create a new list with last 3 numbers
3. Create a new list with even-indexed numbers
4. Create a reversed version of the list

Requirements

• Use slicing operations only
• Don't use any loop constructs

Input

No input required

Expected Output

First 5: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
Last 3: [7, 8, 9]
Even indexed: [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
Reversed: [9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0]

📚 Python List Slicing

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2. List Methods Practice

Start with an empty list called `inventory`
1. Add items: 'sword', 'shield', 'potion' (in this order)
2. Insert 'helmet' at the beginning
3. Remove 'shield' from the list
4. Sort the items alphabetically
5. Count how many 'potion' items exist

Requirements

• Use appropriate list methods for each operation
• Print the list after each step

Input

No input required

Expected Output

After adding: ['sword', 'shield', 'potion']
After inserting: ['helmet', 'sword', 'shield', 'potion']
After removing: ['helmet', 'sword', 'potion']
After sorting: ['helmet', 'potion', 'sword']
Potion count: 1

📚 Python List Methods

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🔴 Advanced Exercises

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1. Combined List Operations

Given two lists:
list1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
list2 = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]

1. Create a new list containing elements from both lists
2. Replace the middle three elements (2,3,4) with [99, 100]
3. Remove the last two elements
4. Double each remaining element

Requirements

• Don't modify the original lists
• Use list concatenation, slicing, and comprehension

Input

No input required

Expected Output

Final list: [2, 200, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50]

📚 Python List Operations

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