Exercises Theme 4:

Working With Lists

Write a separate program to accomplish each of these exercises. Save each program with a filename
that follows standard Python conventions, using lowercase letters and underscores, such as
names.py and greetings.py.

1.1. Pizzas: Think of at least three kinds of your favourite pizza. Store these pizza names in a
list, and then use a for loop to print the name of each pizza.
• Modify your for loop to print a sentence using the name of the pizza instead of printing
just the name of the pizza. For each pizza you should have one line of output containing
a simple statement like I like pepperoni pizza.
• Add a line at the end of your program, outside the for loop, that states how much you
like pizza. The output should consist of three or more lines about the kinds of pizza you
like and then an additional sentence, such as I really love pizza!

1.2. Animals: Think of at least three different animals that have a common characteristic. Store
the names of these animals in a list, and then use a for loop to print out the name of each
animal.
• Modify your program to print a statement about each animal, such as A dog would make
a great pet.
• Add a line at the end of your program stating what these animals have in common. You
could print a sentence such as Any of these animals would make a great pet!

1.3. Counting to Twenty: Use a for loop to print the numbers from 1 to 20, inclusive.

1.4. One Million: Make a list of the numbers from one to one million, and then use a for loop to
print the numbers. (If the output is taking too long, stop it by pressing ctrl-C or by closing
the output window.)

1.5. Summing a Million: Make a list of the numbers from one to one million, and then use
min() and max() to make sure your list actually starts at one and ends at one million. Also,
use the sum() function to see how quickly Python can add a million numbers.

1.6. Odd Numbers: Use the third argument of the range() function to make a list of the odd
numbers from 1 to 20. Use a for loop to print each number.

1.7. Threes: Make a list of the multiples of 3 from 3 to 30. Use a for loop to print the numbers
in your list.

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 1.8. Cubes: A number raised to the third power is called a cube. For example, the cube of 2 is
written as 2**3 in Python. Make a list of the first 10 cubes (that is, the cube of each integer
from 1 through 10), and use a for loop to print out the value of each cube.

1.9. Cube Comprehension: Use a list comprehension to generate a list of the first 10 cubes.

1.10. Slices: Using one of the programs you wrote in this chapter, add several lines to the
end of the program that do the following:
• Print the message, The first three items in the list are:. Then use a slice to print the first
three items from that program’s list.
• Print the message, Three items from the middle of the list are:. Use a slice to print three
items from the middle of the list.
• Print the message, The last three items in the list are:. Use a slice to print the last three
items in the list.

1.11. My Pizzas, Your Pizzas: Start with your program from Exercise 4-1. Make a copy
of the list of pizzas and call it friend_pizzas. Then, do the following:
• Add a new pizza to the original list.
• Add a different pizza to the list friend_pizzas.
• Prove that you have two separate lists. Print the message, My favorite pizzas are:, and
then use a for loop to print the first list. Print the message, My friend’s favorite pizzas
are:, and then use a for loop to print the second list. Make sure each new pizza is stored
in the appropriate list.

1.12. More Loops: All versions of foods.py in this section have avoided using for loops
when printing to save space. Choose a version of foods.py, and write two for loops to print
each list of foods.

1.13. Buffet: A buffet-style restaurant offers only five basic foods. Think of five simple
foods and store them in a tuple.
• Use a for loop to print each food the restaurant offers.
• Try to modify one of the items, and make sure that Python rejects the change.
• The restaurant changes its menu, replacing two of the items with different foods. Add a
block of code that rewrites the tuple, and then use a for loop to print each of the items on
the revised menu.

1.14. PEP 8: Look through the original PEP 8 style guide at

https://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/. You won’t use much of it now, but it might be
interesting to skim through it.

1.15. Code Review: Choose three of the programs you’ve written in this chapter and
modify each one to comply with PEP 8:
• Use four spaces for each indentation level. Set your text editor to insert four spaces
every time you press tab, if you haven’t already done so.
• Use less than 80 characters on each line and set your editor to show a vertical guideline
at the 80th character position.
• Don’t use blank lines excessively in your program files.

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