Accessing Elements in a Tuple

Accessing elements in a tuple is straightforward and works the same way as with lists. Simply specify the index number inside square brackets. Remember, indexing starts at 0, just like with lists.


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movies = ("Inception", "Interstellar", "The Dark Knight", "Tenet", "Dunkirk", "Memento", "Following")

# Accessing the second movie
print(movies[1])

# Accessing the sixth movie
print(movies[5])

Tuples also support negative indexing, where the indexing begins from the end. Thus, the last element has an index of -1, the second to last is -2, and so on.


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movies = ("Inception", "Interstellar", "The Dark Knight", "Tenet", "Dunkirk", "Memento", "Following")

# Accessing the last movie
print(movies[-1])

# Accessing the fourth movie from the end
print(movies[-4])

In the example above, we access the last element (indexed at -1) and the fourth element from the end (indexed at -4).

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We are continuing to work with the tuple space_movies.

Your goal:

Get the first element of this tuple and store it in the variable first_movie.
Get the last element of the tuple and store it in the variable last_movie.
Initialize a new list favorite_movies and add these 2 movies to it.
Use indices to complete this task.

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Accessing Elements in a Tuple

Accessing elements in a tuple is straightforward and works the same way as with lists. Simply specify the index number inside square brackets. Remember, indexing starts at 0, just like with lists.


              1234567
            
movies = ("Inception", "Interstellar", "The Dark Knight", "Tenet", "Dunkirk", "Memento", "Following")

# Accessing the second movie
print(movies[1])

# Accessing the sixth movie
print(movies[5])

Tuples also support negative indexing, where the indexing begins from the end. Thus, the last element has an index of -1, the second to last is -2, and so on.


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movies = ("Inception", "Interstellar", "The Dark Knight", "Tenet", "Dunkirk", "Memento", "Following")

# Accessing the last movie
print(movies[-1])

# Accessing the fourth movie from the end
print(movies[-4])

In the example above, we access the last element (indexed at -1) and the fourth element from the end (indexed at -4).

Task

Swipe to start coding

We are continuing to work with the tuple space_movies.

Your goal:

Get the first element of this tuple and store it in the variable first_movie.
Get the last element of the tuple and store it in the variable last_movie.
Initialize a new list favorite_movies and add these 2 movies to it.
Use indices to complete this task.

Solution

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Accessing Elements in a Tuple

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Accessing Elements in a Tuple

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