How to reeplace an item in a list python

Question

Problem:

Hello Kodlogers,

Myself is a high school student. I’ve started learning Python programming recently. I am wanting to replace an item in a list python. Let’s say I have a list of integers like:

my_list = [10, -15, 1, 8, 0, 9, -5, 13, -1, 5]

and I want to replace every item either -1 or 1. Negatives values with -1, positive values with 1 and leave 0 untouched. Is it doable? If doable, how?
Thanks for your help, mate.

Answer 1

Yes! You can replace each and every element in a list as you are wanting. We’ll define a list with some positive and negative numbers alongside zero. Then we’ll compare the numbers with zero and replace them with -1 and 1 according to their nature and leave zeros as they are.

Please dig into the program below carefully

my_list = [10, -15, 1, 8, 0, 9, -5, 13, -1, 5]
list1 = []
for item in my_list:
    if item > 0:
        list1.append(1)
    elif item < 0:
        list1.append(-1)
    else:
        list1.append(0)

print(my_list)
print(list1)

and the program will produce an output like this:

[10, -15, 1, 8, 0, 9, -5, 13, -1, 5]
[1, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, -1, 1, -1, 1]

Thanks