TRY IT YOURSELF
4-10. Slices: Using one of the programs you wrote in this chapter, add several
lines to the end of the program that do the following:
• Print the message The first three items in the list are:. Then use a slice to
print the first three items from that program’s list.
• Print the message Three items from the middle of the list are:. Then use a
slice to print three items from the middle of the list.
• Print the message The last three items in the list are:. Then use a slice to
print the last three items in the list.
4-11. My Pizzas, Your Pizzas: Start with your program from Exercise 4-1 (page 56).
Make a copy of the list of pizzas, and call it friend_pizzas. Then, do the
following:
• Add a new pizza to the original list.
• Add a different pizza to the list friend_pizzas.
• Prove that you have two separate lists. Print the message My favorite piz-
zas are:, and then use a for loop to print the first list. Print the message My
friend’s favorite pizzas are:, and then use a for loop to print the second list.
Make sure each new pizza is stored in the appropriate list.
4-12. More Loops: All versions of foods.py in this section have avoided using
for loops when printing, to save space. Choose a version of foods.py, and
write two for loops to print each list of foods.
Tuples
Lists work well for storing collections of items that can change throughout the
life of a program. The ability to modify lists is particularly important when
you’re working with a list of users on a website or a list of characters in a game.
However, sometimes you’ll want to create a list of items that cannot change.
Tuples allow you to do just that. Python refers to values that cannot change as
immutable, and an immutable list is called a tuple.
Defining a Tuple
A tuple looks just like a list, except you use parentheses instead of square
brackets. Once you define a tuple, you can access individual elements by
using each item’s index, just as you would for a list.
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