Python - Lists

Exercises

Find the Average

Difficulty: Low

Title: Find the Average

Description:
Create a program that takes user input of five numbers and determine the average.

Organize the numbers from smallest to largest.
Ignore the smallest and largest number when determining the average.
Output the list created.
Output the average (truncate / round down) to the nearest whole number.

Output:
Number: 20
Number: 15
Number: 1
Number: 5
Number: 10

List: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20
Average: 10

Find Words Longer Than

Difficulty: Low

Title: Find Words Longer Than

Description:
Write a Python program to find the list of words that are longer than a given length from a given list of words.

Prompt the user for a list of five words.
Prompt the user for a given length to find.
Output the original list.
Output the words that are equal to or greater than a given length.
If no words are greater than or equal to the length inputted, output: "No matches found"

NOTE: The output of the list (see example output) is not simply outputting the list itself. Think Strings and concatenation.

Output:
Word: charity
Word: utter
Word: snow
Word: bench
Word: at
Word Length: 5

List: charity, utter, snow, bench, at
Words Matching: charity, utter, bench

Same Characters

Difficulty: Medium

Title: Same Characters

Description:
Create a program that takes five user inputs and puts them into a list to count the number of strings that match the following criteria:

The string length has to be 3 or more to be considered in the count.
The first and last characters are the same to be considered in the count.
Output the list created.
Output the final count.

NOTE: The output of the list (see example output) is not simply outputting the list itself. Think Strings and concatenation.

Output:
Word: aba
Word: cat
Word: that
Word: dog
Word: pop

List: aba, cat, that, dog, pop
Count: 3

Comparing Lists

Difficulty: High

Title: Comparing Lists

Description:
Create a program that prompts the user for two lists of five words each and compare the lists for similarities and differences between the two lists.

Output the two lists.
Output the similarities.
Output the differences in the order they were entered.

NOTE: The output this time of the list is just printing the list.

Output:
Word: cat
Word: dog
Word: fish
Word: bat
Word: cow

Word: dog
Word: eel
Word: bat
Word: ant
Word: lama

List One: ['cat', 'dog', 'fish', 'bat', 'cow']
List Two: ['dog', 'eel', 'bat', 'ant', 'lama']
Similarities: dog bat
Differences: cat fish cow eel ant lama

One Letter Change Up

Difficulty: High

Title: One Letter Change Up

Description:
Write a program to prompt the user for a short word, three to five letters. Read from a dictionary (see Python - Sample Code and see how many words you can find by changing one letter at a time).

Output the words as you find them, but DO NOT include the word to be found.
Output the total words found.
Ignore case sensitivity (i.e. "H" and "h" should be treated as the same character).

Reading From a File


# creating variable to store the 

# number of words 

number_of_words = 0 



# Opening our text file in read only 

# mode using the open() function 

with open(r'SampleFile.txt','r') as file: 



  # Reading the content of the file 

  # using the read() function and storing 

  # them in a new variable 

  data = file.read() 



  # Splitting the data into separate lines 

  # using the split() function 

  lines = data.split() 



# Printing total number of words 

print(lines)

Output:
Input a string: boat

boat
coat
doat
goat
moat
toat
beat
bhat
...