Python Workout: 50 ten-minute exercises

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Python Workout presents 50 exercises designed to deepen the reader's skill with Python. Readers will not only tackle exercises using built-in data structures, but also more advanced techniques, such as functional programming, object-oriented programming, iterators, and generators. With each engaging challenge, readers will practice a new skill and learn how to apply it to everyday coding tasks. Python Workout brief contents 1 n Numeric types 1 2 n Strings 17 3 n Lists and tuples 29 4 n Dictionaries and sets 53 5 n Files 71 6 n Functions 98 7 n Functional programming with comprehensions 116 8 n Modules and packages 143 9 n Objects 158 10 n Iterators and generators 197 contents preface acknowledgments about this book Who should read this book How this book is organized: a roadmap About the code Software/hardware requirements liveBook discussion forum about the author about the cover illustration 1 Numeric types Useful references Exercise 1 – Number guessing game Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 2 – Summing numbers Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 3 – Run timing Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 4 – Hexadecimal output Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 2 Strings Useful references Exercise 5 – Pig Latin Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 6 – Pig Latin sentence Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 7 – Ubbi Dubbi Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 8 – Sorting a string Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 3 Lists and tuples Exercise 9 – First-last Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 10 – Summing anything Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 11 – Alphabetizing names Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 12 – Word with most repeated letters Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 13 – Printing tuple records Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 4 Dictionaries and sets Hashing and dicts Sets Exercise 14 – Restaurant Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 15 – Rainfall Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 16 – Dictdiff Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 17 – How many different numbers? Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 5 Files Exercise 18 – Final line Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 19 – /etc/passwd to dict Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 20 – Word count Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 21 – Longest word per file Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 22 – Reading and writing CSV Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 23 – JSON Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 24 – Reverse lines Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 6 Functions Exercise 25 – XML generator Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 26 – Prefix notation calculator Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 27 – Password generator Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 7 Functional programming with comprehensions Exercise 28 – Join numbers Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 29 – Add numbers Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 30 – Flatten a list Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 31 – Pig Latin translation of a file Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 32 – Flip a dict Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 33 – Transform values Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 34 – (Almost) supervocalic words Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 35a – Gematria, part 1 Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 35b – Gematria, part 2 Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 8 Modules and packages Exercise 36 – Sales tax Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 37 – Menu Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 9 Objects Exercise 38 – Ice cream scoop Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 39 – Ice cream bowl Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 40 – Bowl limits Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 41 – A bigger bowl Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 42 – FlexibleDict Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 43 – Animals Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 44 – Cages Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 45 – Zoo Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary 10 Iterators and generators Exercise 46 – MyEnumerate Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 47 – Circle Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 48 – All lines, all files Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 49 – Elapsed since Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Exercise 50 – MyChain Working it out Solution Screencast solution Beyond the exercise Summary Conclusion index