Nested Lists in Python

We know that a list is a collection of items separated by commas and enclosed within square brackets [ ]. The values stored in a list can be accessed using the slice operator ([ ] and [:]) with index position starting at 0 from the beginning of the list and in case of reverse accessing of list then the index position is -1.

Ex

 Now let us have a glance at nested lists.

Nested Lists

A nested list is a list that appears as an element in another list.

Ex 

 Here the element with index position 3 is a nested list.

Creating a nested list

Creating a nested list is almost similar as creating a list. Here, a list is considered as one of the elements in a nested list.

 Adding elements into a Nested Lists

We can add elements into a list directly as shown in above. In case of nested lists we use append ( ) method to add elements in to it. For the same list we are going to add elements now.

 Accessing elements from Nested Lists

We can access the elements from a nested list by using indexing ‘[ ]’. It is illustrated for the same above example.

Updating a Nested List

The following example describes how to update a list in a nested list.

 Deleting elements in a Nested Lists

The following example describes how to delete an element in a nested list.

Iteration with elements in nested lists

We can iterate through every element in a nested list by using for loops. The below example describes the iteration of an element in nested list.

n_list=[12, 'VMS', ['hi', 3.5], 7]
for i in n_list:
      for item in n_list:
        print(item)
      print( )

Output

 Note

Here the output prints for four times because the elements in the list are 4 in count.

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