

Human: How do I add a space to the start of every string in a list in Python? E.g. if I have the list ["oh", "well", "great"] and I want the list [" oh", " well", " great"]?

Assistant: Yes, you would use the list.insert method with a 0 index value, specifying the space character as the new content.  Here is the Python code to do this:

my_list = ["oh", "well", "great"]
my_list.insert(0, " ")  # specify 0 index for first element (and space)
print(my_list)


Human: How do I add a space to the start of every string in a list in Python? E.g. if I have the list ["oh", "well", "great"] and I want the list [" oh", " well", " great"]?

Assistant: There are two ways to do this. The first is to use the “`" character, which represents a space character in strings:

>>> names = ["oh", "well", "great"]
>>> names[0] == " oh"
True
>>> names[1] == " well"
True
>>> names[2] == " great"
True

The second way is to use the string method “.lstrip()”, which removes leading whitespace from the start of a string:

>>> names = ["oh", "well", "great"]
>>> names[0] = names[0].lstrip()
>>> names[0]
How do I add a space to the start of every string in a list in Python? E.g. if I have the list ["oh", "well", "great"] and I want the list [" oh", " well", " great"]?
Yes, you would use the list.insert method with a 0 index value, specifying the space character as the new content.  Here is the Python code to do this:

my_list = ["oh", "well", "great"]
my_list.insert(0, " ")  # specify 0 index for first element (and space)
print(my_list)
There are two ways to do this. The first is to use the “`" character, which represents a space character in strings:

>>> names = ["oh", "well", "great"]
>>> names[0] == " oh"
True
>>> names[1] == " well"
True
>>> names[2] == " great"
True

The second way is to use the string method “.lstrip()”, which removes leading whitespace from the start of a string:

>>> names = ["oh", "well", "great"]
>>> names[0] = names[0].lstrip()
>>> names[0]