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 …

Nov 29, 2016 · You can't directly cast List to List because Java generics are invariant. This means that List is not the same as List, even though Customer is a subtype of Object.

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 …

May 30, 2013 · For example list and start of containers are now subcommands of docker container and history is a subcommand of docker image. These changes let us clean up the Docker CLI syntax, …

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 …

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

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 …

Apr 16, 2024 · I want to create a series of lists, all of varying lengths. Each list will contain the same element e, repeated n times (where n = length of the list). How do I create the lists, without using a list

A work around is create a custom_list type that inherits list with a method __hash__() then convert your list to use the custom_list datatype. still better to use built-in types.