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Software ==>	Python (34 exercises)
Topic ==>	Slicing (2 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Python training

Practise slicing and looping on a list of the most common English words

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

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:

There are 7 titles in all, from A to G.

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.