You can create lists in several ways. The most common is using square brackets with literal values: fruits = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"]. An empty list uses empty brackets: empty = [].
You can also use the list() constructor to convert other sequences: letters = list("hello") creates ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']. For numeric sequences, combine list() with range(): numbers = list(range(5)) creates [0, 1, 2, 3, 4].
You can also create lists with repeated values: zeros = [0] * 5 creates [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]. Choose the method that best fits your data source.