Python | Sequences exercise | Performing various operations on a tuple of common words

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Software ==> Python  (28 exercises)
Version ==> Latest version
Topic ==> Sequences  (7 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Subject ==> Python training
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Open and run the file shown in the folder above.  It should give you a list of the 25 most common words in written English, and various ways of analysing them:

List of words

If you run this program, you should see 7 headings just waiting to be filled in!

 

See how many of the bits of information from A to G you can show, using these hints:

Problem Hint
A - number of words The len function gives the number of items in any sequence.
B - first 5 words Use the syntax sequence[start:stop] .
C - last 3 words You can use negative numbers to say how many items before the end of the sequence you want to stop.
D - every 5th word Use the syntax sequence[start:stop:step value] .
E - four-letter words Use the iterator for X in Y:, and within this loop test whether the len of each item equals 4.
F - Words starting with w Use the same iterator syntax, but this time apply the startswith method to each item to see if it begins with a w.
G - words in order Tuples are immutable, so use the list function to convert your tuple to a list then apply the sort method.

You can see what answers you should get below.

Here are the answers you should get to the various parts of this exercise:

Answers

These are the answers you should get.

 

Save this program as Analysing common words.py and close it down.

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