ITI 1120

Lab # 4

order of execution, more strings, for-loops,

range function

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 Starting Lab 4
• Open a browser and log into Brightspace

• On the left 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 starting, 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

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 (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 concatenation of s1, s2, and s3
d) the blank space appears in the concatenation of s1, s2, and s3
e) the concatenation of 10 copies of s3
f) the total number of characters in the concatenation of s1, s2, and s3
 Introduction to Computing Using Python by Lj. Perkovic

Indexing operator, revisited

The indexing operator s[i:j] : the slice of s starting at index i and
returns the character ending before index j
at index i (as a s[i:] : the slice of s starting at index i
single character
s[:j] : the slice of s ending before index j
string).
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1
çNote: There are no blank
s = 'A p p l e' spaces here, just appears so
for visibility purposes
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>>> s = 'Apple'
s[0:2] 'A'
='A
p' >>> s[0:2]
'Ap'
>>> s[1:4]
s = 'Apple'
s[1:4] = 'p' p l'
'p >>>
>>> s[0]
'ppl'
'A' s[2:5]
s[2:5] = 'p' l e'
'p >>>
>>> s[1]
'ple'
'p' s[2:]
>>>
S[2:] = 'p 'l'
l e' >>> s[4]
'ple'
'e' s[:2]
>>>
s[:2] = 'A p' 'e' 'Ap'
>>> s[-3:-1]
s[-3:-1] = 'p l' 'pl'
 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’
 Introduction to Computing Using

String methods
Usage Explanation
s.capitalize() returns a copy of s with first character
capitalized
s.count(target) returns the number of occurences of
target in s

Strings are s.find(target) returns the index of the first

occurrence of target in s
immutable;
none of the s.lower() returns lowercase copy of s
string methods s.replace(old, new) returns copy of s with every
modify string s 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 uppercase copy of 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 the link in (b) and trace through the two Python Vizualizer examples that have
“Code Lence 1” and “Code Lence 2” in the caption. You do that by clicking Forward
until the program ends, like we did it class (It does not matter here that it says Python
2.7. For these two programs Python 2 and 3 behave the same).
b) Then Answer the two multiple choice questions at the end

https://runestone.academy/runestone/static/thinkcspy/Functions/Functionsthatreturnvalues.html

c) Then follow this link and do the two multiple choice exercises:

https://runestone.academy/runestone/static/thinkcspy/Functions/FlowofExecutionSummary.html

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 Task 5: More tracing and print vs return

Open the program called print-vs-return-and-function-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 time 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 continue with the next set of lines you are
instructed to uncomment).

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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 solutions 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 stating 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 stating if the user is eligible to vote. As a part
of your solution the program should have a function 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 1
Repeat the exercise in the previous question (version 2), where in addition you need to ask the
user for their citizenship 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 function is_eligible so it takes to additional paramters as
input. In particular the head of the function should be: is_eligible(age, citizenship, prison)

Your program should work if the user enters any of the following versions of answers for the
two new questions:
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
fictional.
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 Programming exercise 2
Write a function called mess that takes a phrase (i.e., a string) as input and then
returns the copy of that phrase where each character that is one of the last 8
consonants of English alphabet is capitalized (so, r, s, t, v, w, x,y , z) and where
each blank space is replaced by dash.

For this question, use a for loop over characters of a string, and “accumulator”.
(We will see, or have seen, that in Lecture 8 on Monday). When called from the
python shell, your function should behave as follows:

>>> mess('Random access memory ')

'Random-acceSS-memoRY--'
>>> mess('central processing unit.')
‘cenTRal-pRoceSSing---uniT.'

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 Introduction to Computing Using

Built-in function 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 for-

loop 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)
 Introduction to Computing Using

Examples of for loops with range()

>>> for i in range(4): >>> for i in range(1):
print(i) print(i) >>> for i in range(0):
print(i)
0 0
1 >>> >>>
2
3
>>>
>>> for i in range(2, 2):
>>> for i in range(2, 3): >>> for i in range(2, 6): print(i)
print(i) print(i)

2 >>>
2 3
>>> 4
5
>>>

>>> for i in range(0, 16, 4):

print(i) >>> for i in range(2, 16, 10):
print(i)
0
4
8 2
12 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 execution. Pay attention what is assigned to variable i and when does loop
terminate.
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): 16
print(i)
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Task 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 3:
Open the file ex23n8.py. Inside of that file:

1. write a function called print_all_23n8(num), that takes as input a non-negative

integer num and prints all the the non-negative numbers smaller than num that
are divisible by 2 or 3 but not 8. You should use the function that is already
present in the file (and that you developed for the last lab)

2. Outside of that function ask the user for a non-negative integer. Your program
should then print all non-negative numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 but not 8,
by making a call to function 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 4:
This program:
for i in range(4):
print("*************")

Prints :
*************
*************
*************
*************
Write a program that asks a user for a positive 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):
$
#
$$
###
$$$
#####
#######
Bonus excercise:
#########
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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###################
 Programming exercise 5:
1. Write a program that asks a user for a positive 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 function, called prime, to this program. Function prime takes a positive
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 function
and print the message stating if the number the user inputted in 1) is a prime.
3. Copy/paste your whole solution into Python Visualizer, click through with
Forward to understand see how it runs

4. Bonus exercise: Write a program that asks a user for a positive 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:

https://runestone.academy/runestone/static/thinkcspy/MoreAboutIteration/SimpleTables.html

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