Reference no: EM132275458

Combine List with Mutation

Build the function, list_combine, that takes in one list and modify the list so that it is left with one item that's the +combination of every single item in the list.  method lst.pop() useful. Use + to combine items in the list.

>>> a = [1,4,5,6,7,8] 
>>> a.pop() # If no argument is put in, the last item in the list is popped off.
8 # The pop method returns the item popped off (aka taken off the list) 

>>> a [1, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
>>>a.pop (2) # Pop off the third item in the list. 
5 

>>> a 
[1, 4, 6, 7]
def list_combine(lst):
    """Write a function that combines all the items in the list into one item and put it as the only item in the list. 

    >>> pokemon = [4, 5, 3, 2, 1, 6]
    >>> list_combine(pokemon)
    >>> pokemon
    [21]
    >>> alphabet = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
    >>> list_combine(alphabet)
    >>> alphabet
    ['abcde']
    """
    "*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"