preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

about the cover illustration

1 Numeric types

Useful references

Exercise 1 ■ Number guessing game

Exercise 2 ■ Summing numbers

Exercise 3 ■ Run timing

Exercise 4 ■ Hexadecimal output

2 Strings

Useful references

Exercise 5 ■ Pig Latin

Exercise 6 ■ Pig Latin sentence

Exercise 7 ■ Ubbi Dubbi

Exercise 8 ■ Sorting a string

3 Lists and tuples

Exercise 9 ■ First-last

Exercise 10 ■ Summing anything

Exercise 11 ■ Alphabetizing names

Exercise 12 ■ Word with most repeated letters

Exercise 13 ■ Printing tuple records

4 Dictionaries and sets

Hashing and dicts

Sets

Exercise 14 ■ Restaurant

Exercise 15 ■ Rainfall

Exercise 16 ■ Dictdiff

Exercise 17 ■ How many different numbers?

5 Files

Exercise 18 ■ Final line

Exercise 19 ■ /etc/passwd to dict

Exercise 20 ■ Word count

Exercise 21 ■ Longest word per file

Exercise 22 ■ Reading and writing CSV

Exercise 23 ■ JSON

Exercise 24 ■ Reverse lines

6 Functions

Exercise 25 ■ XML generator

Exercise 26 ■ Prefix notation calculator

Exercise 27 ■ Password generator

7 Functional programming with comprehensions

Exercise 28 ■ Join numbers

Exercise 29 ■ Add numbers

Exercise 30 ■ Flatten a list

Exercise 31 ■ Pig Latin translation of a file

Exercise 32 ■ Flip a dict

Exercise 33 ■ Transform values

Exercise 34 ■ (Almost) supervocalic words

Exercise 35a ■ Gematria, part 1

Exercise 35b ■ Gematria, part 2

8 Modules and packages

Exercise 36 ■ Sales tax

Exercise 37 ■ Menu

9 Objects

Exercise 38 ■ Ice cream scoop

Exercise 39 ■ Ice cream bowl

Exercise 40 ■ Bowl limits

Exercise 41 ■ A bigger bowl

Exercise 42 ■ FlexibleDict

Exercise 43 ■ Animals

Exercise 44 ■ Cages

Exercise 45 ■ Zoo

10 Iterators and generators

Exercise 46 ■ MyEnumerate

Exercise 47 ■ Circle

Exercise 48 ■ All lines, all files

Exercise 49 ■ Elapsed since

Exercise 50 ■ MyChain

index