Programming Assignment: Homework 3 - Implement Functions Related to Strings, Lists, Sets, & Tuples

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import unittest
from nose.tools import assert_equal, assert_true
import nose.tools

Concatenate

def concatenate(strings):
    """
    Concatenates the given list of strings into a single string.
    Returns the single string.
    If the given list is empty, returns an empty string.

    For example:
    - If we call concatenate(["a","b","c"]), we'll get "abc" in return
    - If we call concatenate([]), we'll get "" in return

    Hint(s):
    - Remember, you can create a single string from a list of multiple strings by using the join() function
    """
    x = "".join(strings)
    return x

all_but_last

def all_but_last(seq):
    """
    Returns a new list containing all but the last element in the given list.
    If the list is empty, returns None.

    For example:
    - If we call all_but_last([1,2,3,4,5]), we'll get [1,2,3,4] in return
    - If we call all_but_last(["a","d",1,3,4,None]), we'll get ["a","d",1,3,4] in return
    - If we call all_but_last([]), we'll get None in return
    """
    if len(seq) == 0 :
        return None
    else:
        seq.pop()
        return seq

Remove Duplicates

def remove_duplicates(lst):
    """
    Returns the given list without duplicates.
    The order of the returned list doesn't matter.

    For example:
    - If we call remove_duplicates([1,2,1,3,4]), we'll get [1,2,3,4] in return
    - If we call remove_duplicates([]), we'll get [] in return

    Hint(s):
    - Remember, you can create a set from a string, which will remove the duplicate elements
    """
    lst = [*set(lst)]
    return lst

Reverse Word

def reverse_word(word):
    """
    Reverses the order of the characters in the given word.

    For example:
    - If we call reverse_word("abcde"), we'll get "edcba" in return
    - If we call reverse_word("a b c d e"), we'll get "e d c b a" in return
    - If we call reverse_word("a  b"), we'll get "b  a" in return
    - If we call reverse_word(""), we'll get "" in return

    Hint(s):
    - You can iterate over a word in reverse and access each character
    """
    l=[]
    for i in [*word]:
        l.insert(0,i)
    return "".join(l)

Divisors

def divisors(n):
    """
    Returns a list with all divisors of the given number n.
    As a reminder, a divisor is a number that evenly divides another number.
    The returned list should include 1 and the given number n itself.
    The order of the returned list doesn't matter.

    For example:
    - If we call divisors(10), we'll get [1,2,5,10] in return
    - If we call divisors(1), we'll get [1] in return
    """
    i = 1
    l = []
    while i <= n :
        if (n % i==0) :
            l.append(i)
        i = i + 1
    return l

Capitalize or Join

def capitalize_or_join_words(sentence):
    """
    If the given sentence starts with *, capitalizes the first and last letters of each word in the sentence,
    and returns the sentence without *.
    Else, joins all the words in the given sentence, separating them with a comma, and returns the result.

    For example:
    - If we call capitalize_or_join_words("*i love python"), we'll get "I LovE PythoN" in return.
    - If we call capitalize_or_join_words("i love python"), we'll get "i,love,python" in return.
    - If we call capitalize_or_join_words("i love    python  "), we'll get "i,love,python" in return.

    Hint(s):
    - The startswith() function checks whether a string starts with a particualr character
    - The capitalize() function capitalizes the first letter of a string
    - The upper() function converts all lowercase characters in a string to uppercase
    - The join() function creates a single string from a list of multiple strings
    """
    if sentence.startswith('*'):
        sentence = sentence[1:]
        words = sentence.split()
        processed_words = [word[0].upper() + word[1:-1] + word[-1].upper() for word in words]
        processed_sentence = ' '.join(processed_words)
        return processed_sentence[1:]
    else:
        words = sentence.split()
        joined_sentence = ','.join(words)
        return joined_sentence

Move zero

def move_zero(lst):
    """
    Given a list of integers, moves all non-zero numbers to the beginning of the list and
    moves all zeros to the end of the list.  This function returns nothing and changes the given list itself.

    For example:
    - After calling move_zero([0,1,0,2,0,3,0,4]), the given list should be [1,2,3,4,0,0,0,0] and the function returns nothing
    - After calling move_zero([0,1,2,0,1]), the given list should be [1,2,1,0,0] and the function returns nothing
    - After calling move_zero([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]), the given list should be [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and the function returns nothing
    - After calling move_zero([]), the given list should be [] and the function returns nothing
    """
    count = lst.count(0)
    non_zero_nums = [num for num in lst if num != 0]
    lst.clear()
    lst.extend(non_zero_nums + [0] * count)