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This document contains 6 problems related to data processing and Python programming concepts. It includes tasks involving reading a text file into a data structure, processing the data by capitalizing titles and sorting records, and printing the records in a formatted table.

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Python Assignment

This document contains 6 problems related to data processing and Python programming concepts. It includes tasks involving reading a text file into a data structure, processing the data by capitalizing titles and sorting records, and printing the records in a formatted table.

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"""

Problem 1

HCI 574 2016 midterm

Ex 1: Index and slicing

Using both indexing and slicing, only on L, assemble and print a new list that
looks like this:
[0, 2, 3, [5 ,6], 8, 10]

[ 3 pts ] Index and slicing


"""
L = [0, [], [1,2,3,4], [[5],[6,7]], [8,9,10]]
tmp = L[0] # Gets first number (0) in list
tmp1 = L[2] # Gets second two numbers (2,3) in list
tmp2 = tmp1[1:2][0] # Gets the number 2
tmp3 = tmp1[2] # Gets the number 3
tmp4 = L[-1] # Gets last 3 numbers in list (8,9,10)
tmp5 = L[3] # Gets the 3rd set of numbers in list ([[5], [6, 7]]
tmp6 = tmp5[0][0] # Gets the number 5 out of brackets
tmp7 = L[3][1][0] # Gets the number 6 out of brackets
newL = [tmp, tmp2, tmp3, [tmp6, tmp7], tmp4[0], tmp4[2]] # Gets entire list
print "newL is", newL # should show this: [0, 2, 3, [5 ,6], 8, 10]

"""
Problem 2

Ex 2: For and while loops

Write code, (using for and a while loop) to figure out how often each element
of F occurs within N and print it out.

This should print:


4 occurs in N 2 times
7 occurs in N 1 times
2 occurs in N 3 times

IMPORTANT: if use the count() function you will only get half points (because
that's just too easy ...)
[ 6 pts ] loops
"""

F = [4,7,2]
N = [2,3,4,2,5,6,3,2,6,7,3,4]

for f in F:
counter = 0
for n in N:
if f == n:
counter += 1
print f, "occurs", counter, "times"

index = 0
numelems = len(F)
while index < numelems:
index += 1
index2 = 0
numelems2 = len(N)
while index2 < numelems2:
index2 += 1
print F, "occurs in N", index, "times"

print "F is", F


print "N is", N

"""
Problem 3

Ex 3: Function design

Write a function lenumerate() that takes a string (like s) and returns a list
of 2-item lists
containing each word and it's length:
[['But', 3], ['then', 4], ['of', 2], ... ['are', 3], ['nonmigratory', 12]]

[ 3 pts ] Function design - simple

Now write a second version of the lenumerate() function (you can name it
lenumerate2() )
that takes as second argument a boolean (i.e. True or False).
Call this 2. argument flip. The default value for flip shall be False.

If flip is False the list described above will be returned:

False => [['But', 3], ['then', 4], ['of', 2], ... ['are', 3], ['nonmigratory',
12]]

If flip is True, the order of the 2 items shall be flipped around (reversed):

True => [3, 'But'], [4, 'then'], [2, 'of'], ... [3, 'are'], [12,
'nonmigratory']]

Call this new version of the function two times, once so that the default
argument is used
and then again with flip given explicitly as a keyword argument(!) with a
value of True

[ 3 pts ] with 2. arg


"""

# define the function first ...


def lenumerate(s):
'''
lenumerate(s) return s as a list of 2-element lists: [[word, length],
[word, length], ...]
'''
# convert string s into a list of 2-element-lists

# ... then call the function


s = "But then of course African swallows are nonmigratory"
l = lenumerate(s)
e = s.split()
print l

# 2. version of lenumerate(), takes a second arg flip (True/False)


#def lenumerate2(????): # <- you still need to define the two arguments here!
#'''
#lenumerate2() returns a list of 2-element lists: [[word, length], [word,
length], ...]
#a second agument flip (True/False, defaults to False) determines if the
order 2-element list
#is flipped. With flip given as True, the length is first and the word is
second:
#False: [word, length], [word, length], ...]
#True: [[length, word], [length, word], ...]
#'''

#???

# ... then call the 2. version of the function


s = "But then of course African swallows are nonmigratory"
#l = lenumerate2(???) # <- call so that the default arg is used, i.e. output
will NOT be flipped
print l
#l_flipped = lenumerate2(????) # set flip to True via keyword argument, so
the output is flipped
#print l_flipped

"""
Problem 4

Ex 4: Dictionary

You have dictionary d with these names (as keys) and phone numbers (as
values).
Ask user for a name, search the dict for this name (as key).
If the name exists as key in the dict, print out its phone numbers e.g. Jim
233-5467
If not, get the number for the name and add both to the dictionary,
then print out the full content.

[ 5 pts ] Dictionary
"""

d = {'Jim':'233-5467', 'Bob':'643-7894', 'Anne':'478-4392', 'Jill':'952-4532'}


print d
name = "Jim"# or "Bob" or "Chris" - start with hardcoding the name, then get
input from user
username = raw_input( "Please enter name: ")

#raw_input("Copy the output into a text file, then hit any key to continue") #
not part of the code for Ex 4!

"""
Problem 5

Ex 5: Objects, Assignment, reference, function call, argument, operators, in-


place change

Answer the following questions in English in the spaces provided below.

[ 4 pts ] python questions

"""
L1 = [334,43,75]
print L1, id(L1)
# 1) What happens at the = ?
# Answer: The = creates a list which can be refered to as L1

# 2) What is [334,43,75]?
# Answer: This is a list of integers

L1 = L1 + [ len(L1) ]
print L1
# 3) Syntactically, what is something like + called in Python? (I know it's
called a plus!)
# Answer: .......

# 4) What is len() and what role has the L1 in len(L1)?


# Answer: .......

L2 = L1
print L1, id(L1), L2, id(L2)
# 5) What relationship between L1 and L2 is created here?
# Answer: .......

L3 = L1[:]
print L3, id(L3), L1, id(L1), L2, id(L2)
# 6) What happens here? (how is this different from L3 = L1?)
# Answer: .......

L2.sort()
print L1, id(L1), L2, id(L2), L3, id(L3)
# 7) Why is L1 now also sorted but L3 is still unsorted?
# Answer: .......

print sorted(L3)
print L3, id(L3)
# 8) How does using sort() differ from sorted()?
# Answer: .......

"""
Problem 6

Problem 6: file conversion: read in, process and print out data

[ 3 pts ] Read the text file into a string and split into lines
[ 5 pts ] Put the records into a data structure
[ 2 pts ] Capitalize the sketch titles
[ 2 pts ] Sort the records alphabetically according to ID
[ 4 pts ] Print the table with a header row
"""

# Task 1: Reading the file line by line


f = open('database.txt', 'r')
full_text = f.read()
print repr(full_text)
lines = full_text.splitlines()
for l in lines:
print l

# Task 2: Collect each record in a data structure

# Task 3: Convert all Titles to a titlecased (Capitalized) version

# Task 4: sort the records alphabetically according to ID

# Task 5: print the sorted table on the console, make sure to line up the
comumns with
# one space in between ID, Date and Title, like shown below. Use string
formatting and programatically
# determine the widest ID and widest Date beforehand (i.e. do not hardcode it
to 8, loop through
# all IDs and find out how many letters the longest ID has!)
# Also, no NOT just use a third party table formatter like prettytable or
tabulate, use standard python only!

#ID Date Title


#d45j5jkd 28 December 1969 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes To The
Bathroom
#f983 22 December 1970 Royal Episode 13 (Or: The Queen Will Be Watching)
print "Done"

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