The List Of Baseball All Time War Leaders Features Legendary Names Like Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, And Cy Young

I swapped the order of the sub-questions to make this more useful for the most common case that most beginners are searching for.

Also, the question/top answer have 2 million views but very few upvotes.

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.

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Other than that i think the only difference is speed:

It looks like it's a little.

I have a piece of code here that is supposed to return the least common element in a list of elements, ordered by commonality:

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The first, [:], is creating a slice (normally often used for getting just part of a list), which happens to contain the entire list, and thus is effectively a copy of the list.

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The second, list(), is using the actual.

The notation list means a list of something (but i'm not saying what).

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Since the code in test works for any kind of object in the list, this works as a formal method parameter.

Using a type parameter.