That way, you wouldn’t need to know how to add to a list in Python as you could simply update your text file. But that is a story for another time! Also read: How to call a function in Python.

Python has several ways you can add or remove items from a list: .append() inserts an item at the end of the list. For example, list_of_ints.append(4) would turn list_of_ints into the list [1,2,3,4] .