Practical Programming, 2nd Edition

Exercises

Here are some exercises for you to try on your own. Solutions are available at http://pragprog.com/titles/gwpy2/practical-programming.

1. Write a for loop to print all the values in the celegans_phenotypes list from ​Slicing Lists​, one per line. celegans_phenotypes refers to [’Emb’, ’Him’, ’Unc’, ’Lon’, ’Dpy’, ’Sma’].

2. Write a for loop to print all the values in the half_lives list from ​Operations on Lists​, all on a single line. half_lives refers to [87.74, 24110.0, 6537.0, 14.4, 376000.0].

3. Write a for loop to add 1 to all the values from whales from ​Storing and Accessing Data in Lists​, and store the converted values in a new list called more_whales. The whales list shouldn’t be modified. whales refers to [5, 4, 7, 3, 2, 3, ...