chapter 5 hints

If you get stuck, there are number of things to try.

• Search google - put "python" as one of your search terms.
  • Not everything will be appropriate. But if you do use something, put that url in your submitted work and say what you used.
  • Don't just copy and paste - work through what's going on.
• Re-read the chapter and/or Jim's notes and/or the python language's documentation.
• Ask Jim or a tutor, either on slack, in a zoom session, or in an email.

And if you can only do part of a problem - turn that in.

The point of all this is to stretch your mind, not to get the right answers.

Here are a few specific useful tricks for this week's problems.

>>> "one two three".split()   # break a string into words
['one', 'two', 'three']

>>> [' '] * 200               # make a long empty list of spaces

>>> file.readlines()          # read in lines from a file

>>> chr(ord('a') + 2)         # two characters past 'a'

The accumulator pattern can be used to count things in a file.

Good luck!