Compsci 06/101, Fall 2011, Lab 3

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String Slicing and Dicing

Provide your answers to 3-7, creating each word by slicing: 

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Create your own slicing/word puzzle: what's the word and what is the answer?

Vocabulary

  1. What do you think the name of the string method is that returns the lowercase version of a string?
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  2. The function max returns the maximal value of a string as well as a list. What is max("science") and why?
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  3. What is the value of reversed(sorted([5,4,1,2,8])) and why?
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  4. What is the value of sorted(lst).index(min(lst)) for any list lst? Why? What's the value if min is replaced by max?
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  5. Why is the value of st.endswith(st[-3:]) guaranteed to always be true?
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  6. When is the value of st.upper().endswith(st) true?