Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module Y107. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Python, Python Programming

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Python List, Python Tuple, Python Dictionary If a Python list were like a pencil, then a Python Tuple would be like a pen. Most programming languages include structures in which you can hold a ... http://www.wellho.net/solutions/python-p ... onary.html  [longer article]

Python Programming - training course - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging. Python Programming - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging. This course starts at the fundamentals ... http://www.wellho.net/course/ypfull.html  [course]

Learning to Program in Python - training course - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging. Learning to Program in Python - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging. This course starts ... http://www.wellho.net/course/ylfull.html  [course]

Can I sort a dictionary? #!/usr/local/bin/python author = {"php":"Rasmus Lerdorf",\ "perl":"Larry Wall",\ "tcl":"John Ousterhout",\ "awk":"Brian Kernighan",\ ... http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=y107/d3.py  [code sample]

Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals Some more new examples in Python - from this week's course. From my Introduction to Python / simple example to show the power of the language, I present ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2368_Pyt ... ntals.html  [short article]

Using a list of keys and a list of values to make a dictionary in Python - zip If you have two lists in Python and you want to use them as the keys and values of a dictionary, you might be interested on Python's zip function. It's ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1145_Usi ... n-zip.html  [short article]

Python dictionary for quick look ups Using a dictionary in Python, you can avoid the need for a loop in your program to search out elements in a collection. Suppose, for example, you have ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1144_Pyt ... k-ups.html  [short article]

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Lists and tuples are collections of data values held in an object in which they can be referenced by a position number. Dictionaries are mutable collections of objects in which data values can be looked up name.

This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Python, Python Programming

coin.py	Class used by dictionary with object key example
d1.py	Defining and looking up in a dictionary
d2.py	Looping through all the elements of a dictionary
d3.py	Can I sort a dictionary?
file_2nd	Analysing blog accesses
pocket.py	dictionary with object keys - example
pred.py	Illustration of a program that would benefit from dictionaries
pres.py	Is a key used in a disctionary?
slowcoach	Analysing visit lengths to web site - no cache
snork	Variable scope when sorting a dictionary by value
visitors	Analysing visit lengths to web site - using cache
zip-it.py	Joining 2 lists into a dictionary

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