CSC111 Exercises with Lists

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 09:53, 24 March 2014 (EDT)

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Exercise 1

Question 1

Create a list with all the odd numbers between 1 and 100.

Question 2

Create a list with all the odd numbers less than 10,000,000

Figure out a way to print the list in an efficient and elegant way

Exercise 2

Question 1

Split a line of text into a list of words.

Question 2

Reformat the list of words as a string with the |-character as separator instead of a space

Exercise 3

Question 1

Given the text in the first list of this page which represents lists of media files, create a list of just the names of the files.

Question 2

Given the list on the same page, find the file that takes the most amount of disk space.

Question 3

List the files as a name followed by a size, one per line

Question 4

Same as Question 3, but sort the list alphabetically

Question 5

Same as Question 3, but sort the list by file size

Question 6

Create a new list that contains only the size, month, day, year and file name for each file. In other words, drop the first 4 fields of each line.

Solution Program

# ListExercises.py
# D. Thiebaut
# answers to Exercises given in
# http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/CSC111_Exercises_with_Lists
#
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"""
# box(): prints a caption inside a box
def box( caption ):
    length = len( caption )+2
    print( "\n\n\n+" + "-"*length + "+" )
    print( "| " + caption  + " |" )
    print( "+" + "-"*length + "+" )

# answer to Exercise 1
def exo1():
    box( "Exercise 1" )
    list = []
    for i in range( 1, 100, 2 ):
        list.append( i )

    print( "list = ", list )

    list = []
    for i in range( 1, 10000000, 2 ):
        list.append( i )
    print( "list = ", list[0],"...", list[-1] )
    
# answer to Exercise 2
def exo2():
    box( "Exercise 2" )
    line = "The quick red fox jumped over the brown sleeping dog"
    words = line.split()
    print( "words = ", words )
    separator = "|"
    newLine = separator.join( words )
    print( "newLine = ", newLine )

# answer to Exercise 3
def exo3():
    # Question 1
    box( "Exercise 3, Question 1" )
    list = []
    for line in text.split( "\n" ):
        if len( line ) <= 1:
            continue
        words = line.split()
        list.append( words[-1] )

    print( "list = ", "\n".join( list ) )

    # Question 2
    box( "Exercise 3, Question 2" )
    max     = 0
    fileMax = ""
    for line in text.split( "\n" ):
        if len( line ) <= 1:
            continue
        words = line.split()
        size = int( words[4] )
        if size > max:
            max = size
            fileMax = words[-1]

    print( "Largest file = %s (%d bytes)" % (fileMax, max) )

    # Question 3
    box( "Exercise 3, Question 3" )
    for line in text.split( "\n" ):
        if len( line ) <= 1:
            continue
        words  = line.split()
        print( "%50s %10d" % ( words[-1], int(words[4])) )
    
def main():
    #exo1()
    #exo2()
    exo3()
    
main()