Create a List of Strings in Python

Create a list of strings

To create a list of strings in Python, you can create an empty list and add string elements to the list, or initialise the list with just string elements.

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Examples

1. Create empty list and add string elements

In the following program we create an empty list x and add string elements to this list using append() function.

Python Program

x = []
x.append('apple')
x.append('banana')
x.append('cherry')

print(x)

Output

['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']

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2. Initialize list with string elements

In the following program we create a list x and initialised it with string elements.

Python Program

x = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']
print(x)

Output

['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']

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Summary

In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to create a list with string elements, with the help of examples.