scores = [4, 2, 7, 1, 8]
print type(scores)
<type 'list'>

print scores
[4, 2, 7, 1, 8]

print score[1]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Susan\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\User\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 2885, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-5-ac71178aa56c>", line 1, in <module>
    print score[1]
NameError: name 'score' is not defined

print scores[1]
2


print scores[2:]
[7, 1, 8]


print scores
[4, 2, 7, 1, 8]


scores[2] = 5
print scores
[4, 2, 5, 1, 8]


print sum(scores)
20


print max(scores)
8


print min(scores)
1


print max(scores[2:])
8


print max(scores[:2])
4


scores.append(-5)
print scores
[4, 2, 5, 1, 8, -5]


print min(scores)
-5


scores += 12
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Susan\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\User\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 2885, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-19-1689748dd7ac>", line 1, in <module>
    scores += 12
TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable

scores += [12]
print scores
[4, 2, 5, 1, 8, -5, 12]


scores = [17] + scores
print scores
[17, 4, 2, 5, 1, 8, -5, 12]