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ITI 1120
Lab # 4
order of execution, more strings, for- loops, range function
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Star/ng Lab 4
• Open a browser and log into Blackboard Learn
• On the le? hand side under Labs tab, find lab4 material
contained in lab4-students.zip file
• Download that file to the Desktop and unzip it.
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Before star/ng, always make sure
you are running Python 3
This slide is applicable to all labs, exercises, assignments … etc
ALWAYS MAKE SURE FIRST that you are running Python 3.4 (3.5 is
fine too)
That is, when you click on IDLE (or start python any other way)
look at the first line that the Python shell displays. It should say
Python 3.4 or 3.5 (and then some extra digits)
If you do not know how to do this, read the material provided
with Lab 1. It explains it step by step
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Exercise from: Introduction to Computing Using Python by Lj. Perkovic
Task 1
In Python interpreter assign string ‘good’ to variable s1, ‘bad’ to variable
‘s2’ and ‘silly’ to variable s3. Write Python expressions involving strings s1,
s2, and s3 that correspond to:
a) 'll' appears in s3
b) the blank space does not appear in s1
c) the concatena/on of s1, s2, and s3
d) the blank space appears in the concatena/on of s1, s2, and s3
e) the concatena/on of 10 copies of s3
f) the total number of characters in the concatena/on of s1, s2, and s3
The indexing operator
returns the character
at index i (as a
single character
string).
Introduction to Computing Using Python by Lj. Perkovic
Indexing operator, revisited
'A'
'p'
'p'
'l'
'e'
s[0:2] =
s[1:4] =
s[2:5] =
S[2:] =
s[:2] =
s =
0 1 2 3 4
>>> s = 'Apple'
>>> s[0]
'A'
>>> s[1]
'p'
>>> s[4]
'e'
' A p p l e '
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1
'A p'
'p p l'
'p l e'
'p l e'
s[-3:-1] = 'p l'
'A p'
>>> s = 'Apple'
>>> s[0:2]
'Ap'
>>> s[1:4]
'ppl'
>>> s[2:5]
'ple'
>>> s[2:]
'ple'
>>> s[:2]
'Ap'
>>> s[-3:-1]
'pl'
s[i:j] : the slice of s star>ng at index i and
ending before index j
s[i:] : the slice of s star>ng at index i
s[:j] : the slice of s ending before index j
çNote: There are no blank
spaces here, just appears so
for visibility purposes
Introduction to Computing Using Python by Lj. Perkovic
Task 2
Start python interpreter
1. In python interpreter, create aha variable and assign
‘abcdefgh’ to it.
2. Then write Python expressions (in the interpreter)
using string aha and the indexing operator that evaluate
to:
a)‘abcd’
b)‘def’
c)‘h’
d)‘fg’
e)‘defgh’
f)‘fgh’
g)‘adg’
h)‘be’
Usage Explana>on
s.capitalize() returns a copy of s with first character
capitalized
s.count(target) returns the number of occurences of
target in s
s.find(target) returns the index of the first
occurrence of target in s
s.lower() returns lowercase copy of s
s.replace(old, new) returns copy of s with every
occurrence of old replaced with new
s.split(sep) returns list of substrings of s,
delimited by sep
s.strip() returns copy of s without leading and
trailing whitespace
s.upper() returns lowercase copy of s
Introduction to Computing Using PytString methods
Strings are
immutable;
none of the
string methods
modify string s
Introduction to Computing Using Python by Lj. Perkovic
Task 3
Copy/paste the following expression (in black) to Python
Interpreter:
s = '''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times;
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness;
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity;
it was ...'''
(The beginning of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.)
Then do the following, in order:
(a) Write a sequence of statements that produce a copy of s, named newS,
in which characters ., ,, ;, and \n have been replaced by blank spaces.
(b) Remove leading and trailing blank spaces in newS (and name the new
string newS).
(c) Make all the characters in newS lowercase (and name the new string
newS).
(d) Compute the number of occurrences in newS of string 'it was'.
(e) Change every occurrence of was to is (and name the new string newS).
Task 4
a) Follow this link and trace through the two Python Vizualizer examples that have
“Code Lence 1” and “Code Lence 2” in the cap/on. You do that by clicking Forward
un/l the program ends, like we did it class (It does not macer here that it says Python
2.7. For these two programs Python 2 and 3 behave the same).
b) Then Answer the two mul/ple choice ques/ons at the end
http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/Functions/Functionsthatreturnvalues.html
c) Then follow this link and do the two mul/ple choice exercises:
http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/Functions/FlowofExecutionSummary.html
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Task 5: More tracing and print vs return
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Open the program called print-vs-return-and-func/on-calls.py, provided in
this lab.
The lines the start with # are commented out. Thus Python will ignore them.
In other words, if you press Run Module the lines that start with # will not be
executed. Uncomment the lines as instructed in the file. Each /me you do,
save and press “Run Module”. But before you press “Run Module”, write
down what you think the program will print. Then press “Run Module” and
compare.
Note: once you uncomment a line as instructed, leave it as is (do not put
back the comments, but rather con/nue with the next set of lines you are
instructed to uncomment).
Programming exercise: Solved
Problem
Suppose that you are given the following two problems to solve.
Read the two problems. Think about how you would solve them,
and then open and study the two provided solu/ons in
prog_solved_v1.py and prog_solved_v2.py. Run both.
Version 1: Write a program that asks a user for her name and age
and prints a nice message sta/ng if the user is eligible to vote.
Version 2: Write a program that asks a user for name and age and
prints a nice message sta/ng if the user is eligible to vote. As a part
of your solu/on the program should have a func/on called
is_eligible that given the age as input parameter returns true or
false depending on weather the age is less than 18 or not.
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Programming exercise: Ques/on 1 Repeat the exercise in the previous ques/on (version 2), where in addi/on you need to ask the
user for their ci/zenship and if they are currently in prison convicted for a criminal offence.
Your program should print a nice message telling the user if they are eligible to vote (i.e. if they
are 18+, Canadian and do not live in prison convicted for a criminal offence, then they can vote.
Otherwise not). You should modify func/on is_eligible so it takes to addi/onal paramters as
input. In par/cular the head of the func/on should be: is_eligible(age, ci/zenship, prison)
Your program should work if the user enters any of the following versions of answers for the
two new ques/ons:
Canadian
Canada
Canada
canadian
Yes
YES
No
no
and so on
Note that in Canada, one can vote even if in prison convicted for a criminal offence. This example if
fic/onal.
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Introduction to Computing Using PytBuilt-in func>on range()
Function range() is used to iterate over a sequence of
numbers in a specified range
• This iterates over the n numbers 0, 1, 2, …, n-1
for i in range(n):
• This iterates over the n numbers k, k+1, k+2, …, n-1
for i in range(k, n):
• This iterates over the n numbers k, k+c, k+2c, k+3c, …, n-1
for i in range(k, n, c):
In particular the first time a program encounters a forloop it creates the variable whose name follows the
keyword for. In the above examples, the variable name is
i. Then that variable, i in this case, takes values in
the given range one by one. Each time it takes the next
value it enters the for-loop and executes its body. The
for-loop terminates after i has taken on all the values
in the range, as shown above)
>>> for i in range(2, 3):
print(i)
2
>>>
>>> for i in range(2, 2):
print(i)
>>>
Introduction to Computing Using PytExamples of for loops with range()
>>> for i in range(4):
print(i)
0
1
2
3
>>>
>>> for i in range(0):
print(i)
>>>
>>> for i in range(1):
print(i)
0
>>>
>>> for i in range(2, 6):
print(i)
2
3
4
5
>>>
>>> for i in range(0, 16, 4):
print(i)
0
4
8
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>>>
>>> for i in range(2, 16, 10):
print(i)
2
12
>>>
Python Visualizer
Go to Python Visualizer here (make sure you choose Python 3)
http://www.pythontutor.com/visualize.html#mode=edit
and copy/paste, only by one, the following loops to it and click Forward to visualize
the execu/on. Pay acen/on what is assigned to variable i and when does loop
terminate.
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for i in range(3):
print(i)
for i in range(2,4):
print(i)
for i in range(2,2):
print(i)
for i in range(1,10, 3):
print(i)
Introduction to Computing Using PytTask 6
Before attempting the following exercise study the examples from
the previous slide.
Then open a new file in IDLE and write a program with 6 separate
for loops that will print the 6 sequences listed below in parts a)
to f). (you do not have to print commas, but you can if you know
how to).
Note that if you put ,end=" ” at the end of a print function call,
then the print function will print the blank space when it finishes
rather than go to the new line.
Eg: this prints numbers 0 to 9 in one line
>>> for i in range(10):
print(i,end=" ")
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>
a)0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10
b)1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
c)0, 2, 4, 6, 8
d)1, 3, 5, 7, 9
e)20, 30, 40, 50, 60
f)10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Programming exercise 2:
Open the file ex23n8.py. Inside of that file:
1. write a func/on called print_all_23n8(num), that takes as input a non-nega/ve
integer num and prints all the the non-nega/ve numbers smaller than num that
are divisible by 2 or 3 but not 8. You should use the func/on that is already
present in the file (and that you developed for the last lab)
2. Outside of that func/on ask the user for a non-nega/ve integer. Your program
should then print all non-nega/ve numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 but not 8,
by making a call to func/on print_all_23n8
3. Run your program and test it by entering, for example, 1000 when prompted for
a number
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Programming exercise 3: This program:
for i in range(4):
print("*************")
Prints :
*************
*************
*************
*************
Write a program that asks a user for a posi/ve integer and a character. And then draws half piramid
with the given number of raws using that character. For example if the user enter 3 and $, your
program should draw (that is, print):
$
$$
$$$
For a callenge, draw a real pirmaid like the one to the right
that should be displayed if the user entered 10 and #
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#
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#####
#######
#########
###########
#############
###############
#################
###################
Programming exercise 4:
1. Write a program that asks a user for a posi/ve integer and then prints all the
divisors of the given integer. For example if the user entered 6, the program
should print: 1, 2, 3, 6
2. Add a func/on, called prime, to this program. Func/on prime takes a posi/ve
integer as input parameter and tests if it is a prime (that is, it returns true if the
given number is a prime and false otherwise). Recall that a number is prime if it
at least 2 and if it is only divisible by 1 and itself. Then make a call to this func/on
and print the message sta/ng if the number the user inpuced in 1) is a prime.
3. Copy/paste your whole solu/on into Python Visualizer, click through with
Forward to understand see how it runs
4. Bonus: Write a program that asks a user for a posi/ve integer, n, and prints all
the primes smaller than n.
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Making a table
With these tools, you now can make a program that prints
nice tables. See here:
http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/MoreAboutIteration/SimpleTables.html
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