Tiny Python Projects

2 The crow’s nest: Working with strings

Avast, you corny-faced gollumpus! Ye are barrelman for this watch. D’ye ken what I mean, ye addle-pated blunderbuss?! Ah, landlubber ye be! OK, then, you are the lookout in the crow’s nest--the little bucket attached to the top of a mast of a sailing ship. Your job is to keep a lookout for interesting or dangerous things, like a ship to plunder or an iceberg to avoid. When you see something like a narwhal, you are supposed to cry out, “Ahoy, Captain, a narwhal off the larboard bow!” If you see an octopus, you’ll shout “Ahoy, Captain, an octopus off the larboard bow!” (We’ll assume everything is “off the larboard bow” for this exercise. It’s a great place for things to be.)

From this point on, ...