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Even though I had done the tasks beforehand, watching them being done in class today taught me new things.
I learned that I could use Python’s in-built list methods more, instead of falling back to for loop all the time.
For example, I could use the extend method (rather than for loop and append method) to expand a list with the contents of another list. Likewise, I could use the clear method (rather than for loop and remove method) to empty a list.
Unless there is a specific need for using the for loop, like I need to check a condition on individual elements before adding them to or removing them from the list, the code looks much cleaner this way.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by SM