CS61A Lab 5: Sequences

Week 5, 2011


Tuples

0.) (Note: remember, computer scientists always start counting from 0!) Try to guess what Python will do for the following expressions. Check your answer using the Python interpreter.

>>> for item in (1, 2, 3, 4, 5):
...     print(item * item)
...

>>> len((1, 2, 3, 4, 5))

>>> (1, 3, 9) * 3

>>> len((1, 5, 10) * 2)

>>> len(1, 2, 3, 4)

>>> (1, 2, 3) + (4, 3, 2, 1)

>>> ((1, 2, 3) + (4, 3, 2, 1))[4]

1.) For each of the following tuples, give the correct expression to get 7.

>>> x = (1, 3, (5, 7), 9)
>>> #YOUR EXPRESSION INVOLVING x HERE
7
>>> y = ((7,),)
>>> #YOUR EXPRESSION INVOLVING y HERE
7
>>> z = (1, (2, (3, (4, (5, (6, 7))))))
>>> #YOUR EXPRESSION INVOLVING z HERE
7

2.) Write the reverse procedure which operates on tuples. For a description of its behavior, see the docstring given below:

def reverse(seq):
    """Takes an input tuple, seq, and returns a tuple with the same items in
    reversed order. Does not reverse any items in the tuple and does not modify the
    original tuple.

    Arguments:
    seq -- The tuple for which we return a tuple with the items reversed.

    >>> x = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
    >>> reverse(x)
    (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
    >>> x
    (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
    >>> y = (1, 2, (3, 4), 5)
    >>> reverse(y)
    (5, (3, 4), 2, 1)
    """
    "*** Your code here. ***"

Map and Filter

3.) Try to guess what the following print. Check your solution using the Python interpreter.

>>> tuple(map(lambda x: x * x, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)))
>>> tuple(filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)))
>>> def is_even(x):
...     return x % 2 == 0
...
>>> def square(x):
...     return x * x
...
>>> tuple(map(square, filter(is_even, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6))))

4.) Write the sizes procedure using map. This procedure will take a sequence of tuples and will return a sequence of the sizes of each of the tuples in the original input.

def sizes(seq):
    """Takes an input sequence of tuples, seq, and returns a sequence with the
    corresponding lengths of each tuple in seq.

    Arguments:
    seq -- A sequence of tuples.

    >>> sizes(((1,), (2, 3), (4, 5, 6)))
    (1, 2, 3)
    """
    "*** Your code here. ***"

5.) Write the odd_len_only procedure using filter. This procedure will take a sequence of tuples and return a sequence containing only those tuples in the original sequence which had an odd length.

def odd_len_only(seq):
    """Takes an input sequence of tuples, seq, and returns a sequence with only
    the tuples which had odd length.
    
    Arguments:
    seq -- A sequence of tuples.

    >>> odd_len_only(((1,), (2, 3), (4, 5, 6)))
    ((1,), (4, 5, 6))
    """
    "*** Your code here. ***"

Rlists

To review how rlists work, take a look at Section 2.3.2 in the course notes.

6.) It'd be convenient to have a procedure tuple_to_rlist, which takes a tuple and converts it to the equivalent rlist. Finish the implementation below. (Hint: an easy solution uses reverse from earlier in the lab).

def tuple_to_rlist(tup):
    """Takes an input tuple, tup, and returns the equivalent representation of
    the sequence using an rlist.
    
    Arguments:
    tup -- A sequence represented as a tuple.

    >>> tuple_to_rlist((1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6))
    (1, (2, (3, (4, (5, (6, None))))))
    """
    "*** Your code here. ***"