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h09
CS8 W19
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h09: Perkovic 4.1-4.2 (Strings, Formatting)

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READING ASSIGNMENT

Please read Perkovic 4.1-4.2 (Strings, Formatting). Then complete these problems.

  1. (10 pts) Please fill in the information at the top of this homework sheet, including your name and umail address. If the other two items apply, please fill them in as well. Please do this every single time you submit homework for this class. It is important to fill in both name and umail every time, since handwriting is sometimes difficult to decipher. Having both helps us ensure you get credit for your work.

    DO NOT staple, paper clip, spit-fold-and-tear, or do ANYTHING that would make it difficult to automatically feed your paper through a scanner.

  2. Section 4.1 discusses indexing and slicing of strings, as well as some methods (functions) that can be invoked on strings.

    Assume that the following assignment statements have been executed.

    fname="Chris"
lname="Gaucho"
schools=["UCSB","Stanford","UCSD","Cal Poly"]

    What will each of the expressions below evaluate to?

    Points Expression Result Points Expression Result
    (5 pts) fname[0]   (5 pts) lname[:2]  
    (5 pts) lname[0:2]   (5 pts) lname[-3:]  
    (5 pts) schools[0]   (5 pts) schools[1:]  
    (5 pts) schools[0:2]   (5 pts) fname.find('h')  
    (5 pts) schools[0][0]   (5 pts) lname.find('ch')  
    (5 pts) schools[0][0:2]   (5 pts) lname.replace('cho','di')  

  3. (5 pts) In Python, how do we define a string that consists of more than one line of text?

  4. (5 pts) For the Python code in the left box, write the output in the right box

    the_list = ["8","16","24","32"]
for course in the_list:
   print(course, end="|")

  5. When you import the module time, the function time.time() gives “seconds since the epoch”, while time.gmtime gives a representation of the time in UTC.

    1. (5 pts) What is “the epoch”?

    2. (5 pts) What is UTC?

    3. (5 pts) If you want the local time instead of UTC, what function of the time module do you call instead of time.gmtime()?

  6. (5 pts) As shown on p. 106, if you enter import time at the >>> prompt, then enter the following:

    >>> time.strftime('%A %b/%d/%y %I:%M %p', time.localtime())

    the resulting output is the current date and time in the format:

    Tuesday Oct/24/17 11:59 AM

    Using the table of values on p. 107 as a reference, how would you change the call to strftime above to get the date in this format:

    October 24, 2017