I am trying to edit and fill the lists in A, B and C using the input function.
A = ['']
B = ['']
C = ['']
key = input()
key[0] = 'X'
But i get this error.
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
How can i use the input function to edit my list. Or you might have better way to do this?
Thank You!
The strings per se in Python are immutable (you can't modify its content) however what you can do is to store them in a char list and a list in python is a mutable object, hence you can modify the char list as you see fit.
key = input() # "hello"
new_key = list(key) # ['h','e','l','l','o']
new_key[0] = 'X' # ['X','e','l','l','o']
Python strings are immutable objects which means you cannot change an existing string. The best you can do is create a new string that is a variation on the original. For e.g :
newstring = 'newchar' + oldstring[1:]
In your case it would be something like:
key = input()
newkey = 'X' +key[1:]
Solved. instead of using lists, better use dictionary to fill the A, B or C.
var = {'A':' ', 'B':' ', 'C':' '}
var[input()] = 'X'
Thanks for all of your participation!
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I wanted to try to make a simple game to play in my terminal and I am stuck on this problem.
I have tried
l[y][x] = l[y][x].replace(' ','2')
And
l[y][x] = '2'
And all of these returns a type error
'str' object does not support item assignment.
how do I solve the problem above?
Edit:
l contains
['111111111',
'120000001',
'100000001',
'100000001',
'111111111'
]
You need to convert your list l into characters - what you have is a list of string elements.
#convert elements into characters
m = [list(x) for x in l]
print(m)
print(m[1][2])
m[1][2] = m[1][2].replace('0', '9')
print(m[1][2])
I'm looking for a way to convert a list to a dictionary as shown below. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.
list = ["1/a", "2/b", "3/c"]
dict = {"1": "a", "2": "b", "3": "c"}
Of course it is possible.
First, you can split an element of the list with e.split("/"), which will give a list for example splitted = ["1", "a"].
You can assign the first element to the key and the second to the value:
k = splitted[0]
v = splitted[1]
or another way to express that:
k,v = splitted
Then you can iterate over your list to build your dict, so if we wrap this up (you should not call a list list because list is a type and an already existing identifier:
d = {}
for e in elements:
k,v = e.split("/")
d[k] = v
You can also do that in one line with a dict comprehension:
d = {k:v for k,v in [e.split("/") for e in elements]}
Yes you can.
If you want to have everything after the '/' (i.e. 2nd char), you can do:
dict = {c[0]:c[2:] for c in list}
If you want to have everything after the '/' (but may not be the 2nd char), you can do:
dict = {c[0]:c.split('/')[1] for c in list}
It really dependes on the input you have and what output you want
You can do like this.
lista = ["1/a", "2/b", "3/c"]
new_dict = {}
for val in lista:
new_dict.update({val[0]:val[2]})
print(new_dict)
Try this
list = ["1as/aasc", "2sa/bef", "3edc/cadeef"]
dict = {i.split('/')[0]:i.split('/')[1] for i in list}
Answer will be
{'1as': 'aasc', '2sa': 'bef', '3edc': 'cadeef'}
I have given a different test case. Hope this will answer your question.
I'm trying to change characters from x into upper or lower character depending whether they are in r or c. And the problem is that i can't get all the changed characters into one string.
import unittest
def fun_exercise_6(x):
y = []
r = 'abcdefghijkl'
c = 'mnopqrstuvwxz'
for i in range(len(x)):
if(x[i] in r):
y += x[i].lower()
elif(x[i] in c):
y += x[i].upper()
return y
class TestAssignment1(unittest.TestCase):
def test1_exercise_6(self):
self.assertTrue(fun_exercise_6("osso") == "OSSO")
def test2_exercise_6(self):
self.assertTrue(fun_exercise_6("goat") == "gOaT")
def test3_exercise_6(self):
self.assertTrue(fun_exercise_6("bag") == "bag")
def test4_exercise_6(self):
self.assertTrue(fun_exercise_6("boat") == "bOaT" )
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
Using a list as you are using is probably the best approach while you are figuring out whether or not each character should be uppered or lowered. You can join your list using str's join method. In your case, you could have your return statement look like this:
return ''.join(y)
What this would do is join a collection of strings (your individual characters into one new string using the string you join on ('').
For example, ''.join(['a', 'b', 'c']) will turn into 'abc'
This is a much better solution than making y a string as strings are immutable data types. If you make y a string when you are constructing it, you would have to redefine and reallocate the ENTIRE string each time you appended a character. Using a list, as you are doing, and joining it at the end would allow you to accumulate the characters and then join them all at once, which is comparatively very efficient.
If you define y as an empty string y = "" instead of an empty list you will get y as one string. Since when you declare y = [] and add an item to the list, you add a string to a list of string not a character to a string.
You can't compare a list and a string.
"abc" == ["a", "b", "c'] # False
The initial value of y in the fun_exercise_6 function must be ""
The task is:
User enters a number, you take 1 number from the left, one from the right and sum it. Then you take the rest of this number and sum every digit in it. then you get two answers. You have to sort them from biggest to lowest and make them into a one solid number. I solved it, but i don't like how it looks like. i mean the task is pretty simple but my code looks like trash. Maybe i should use some more built-in functions and libraries. If so, could you please advise me some? Thank you
a = int(input())
b = [int(i) for i in str(a)]
closesum = 0
d = []
e = ""
farsum = b[0] + b[-1]
print(farsum)
b.pop(0)
b.pop(-1)
print(b)
for i in b:
closesum += i
print(closesum)
d.append(int(closesum))
d.append(int(farsum))
print(d)
for i in sorted(d, reverse = True):
e += str(i)
print(int(e))
input()
You can use reduce
from functools import reduce
a = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print(reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, a))
# 45
and you can just pass in a shortened list instead of poping elements: b[1:-1]
The first two lines:
str_input = input() # input will always read strings
num_list = [int(i) for i in str_input]
the for loop at the end is useless and there is no need to sort only 2 elements. You can just use a simple if..else condition to print what you want.
You don't need a loop to sum a slice of a list. You can also use join to concatenate a list of strings without looping. This implementation converts to string before sorting (the result would be the same). You could convert to string after sorting using map(str,...)
farsum = b[0] + b[-1]
closesum = sum(b[1:-2])
"".join(sorted((str(farsum),str(closesum)),reverse=True))
(Im using python on Jupiter Notebook 5.7.8)
I have a project in which are 3 lists, and a list(list_of_lists) that refer to those 3.
I want my program to receive an input, compare this input to the content of my "list_of_lists" and if find a match I want to store the match in another variable for later use.
Im just learning, so here is the code I wrote:
first = ["item1", "item2","item3"]
second = ["item4","item5","item6"]
list1 = [first,second]
list2 = ["asd","asd","asd"]
list_of_lists = [list1,list2]
x = input("Which list are you going to use?: ")
for item in list_of_lists:
if item == x:
match = item
print(match)
print('There was a match')
else:
print('didnt match')
I expect a match but it always output "the didnt match",
I assume it fail to compare the contect of the input with the list inside the list_of lists. The question is also why and how to do it properly(if possible), thanks.
input in python3 returns a string. if you want to convert it into a list, use ast.literal_eval or json.loads or your own parsing method.
list_str = input("Which list are you going to use?: ")
user_list = ast.literal_eval(list_str)
assert isinstance(user_list, list)
...
# do your thing...
So here i tried this code, and it does what i desire, I dont know if its too rudimentary and if there is another way to achieve this.
Here I use a second list to catch the moment when there is a match, after I give to that list the value of my true list and from there print it to be used.
I was wondering if there is a way to take out of the ressults the symbols "[]" and the quotes '', so I can have a clean text format, thanks for the help
first = ["item1", "item2","item3"]
second = ["item4","item5","item6"]
list1 = [first,second]
list2 = ["asd","asd","asd"]
list3 = ["qwe","qwe","qwe"]
list_of_lists = [list1,list2,list3]
reference_list = ["list1","list2","list3"]
count = -1
x = input('Which list are you going to use? ')
for item in reference_list:
count += 1
if x == item:
reference_list = list_of_lists
print(reference_list[count])