1 python chapter 3 reading strings and printing. © samuel marateck
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PythonChapter 3
Reading strings and printing.
© Samuel Marateck
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To write and run a program:1. On the shell’s file menu click New Window2. Type your program.3. Use a # to begin a comment.4. Use the Edit window to edit your program.5. Save your program to the proper directory To save, choose save on the file menu.6. To run your program, click run module on the run menu,
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When you save your program, type the program’s name a period and then py. ForInstance prog1.py . The program you writeis called the source program. When yourun your program, the compiler produceswhat is called the object program. If you look at the directory, in our case you will seeprog1.pyc; you will not be able to read this.
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The entity that runs the object program is
called the Python virtual machine.
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The input() statement
Input to a program is read using theinput() statement and is read as a string,for instance,
name = input(‘Type your input’)
The variable name is a string variable.The string ‘Type your input’ is printed inthe shell when the program is run.
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Our program is:
#our first program
name = input(‘Type your input ’)
Print(‘Our input is ‘, name)
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When your run the program, the following
appears in the shell:
>>>
Type your input
You then type anything after the word input.
Type your input NYU rocks
Here we typed NYU rocks.
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The computer responds:
Our input is NYU rocks
The entire session is shown on the next
slide.
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>>>
Type your input NYU rocks
our input is NYU rocks
>>>
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To be able to type the input on another line,
place \n at the end of the string:
name = input(‘Type your input \n’)
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After you save the program and run it,and type asd as input, the following appears on the shell:
>>> Type your input asdour input is asd>>>
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The characters \n does not appear in the
shell.; \n is called an escape sequence and
n is called a control character and forces a
a skip to the next line (carriage return).
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To see the functions that can be used with
a string, type dir(‘’) in the shell. The result is:
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• >>> dir('')• ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__doc__',
'__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getnewargs__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rmod__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '_formatter_field_name_split', '_formatter_parser', 'capitalize', 'center', 'count', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'format', 'index', 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isdecimal', 'isdigit', 'isidentifier', 'islower', 'isnumeric', 'isprintable', 'isspace', 'istitle', 'isupper', 'join', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lstrip', 'maketrans', 'partition', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rpartition', 'rsplit', 'rstrip', 'split', 'splitlines', 'startswith', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'title', 'translate', 'upper', 'zfill']
• >>>
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To see the effect of one of these functions,type a string, then a period, then the functionending with (). So>>>’asd’.upper()‘ASD’
upper() converts every letter in the string to uppercase. It leaves all other characters alone.The following are examples of some ofthese functions.
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lower()Changes uppercase to
Lowercase and leaves all other variables
alone.
Example:
>>>’THE’
‘the’
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isalpha() Returns True if the string
consists of only letters else False.
Example:
>>> ‘the’.isalpha()
TRUE
>>>’the12’. isalpha()
False
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capitalize(). Capitalizes a string.
Example:
>>>’asd’. capitalize()
‘Asd’
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strip() Removes the leading and trailing blanks.
Example:
>>>‘ asd ‘.strip()
‘asd’
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To convert numeric input to an integer, use
the int() function.
value = input(‘type your integer’)
number = int(value)
print(number + 3)
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Normally, two print statements print theiroutput on two separate lines, Thusprint(‘abc’)print(‘def’)
Produces>>>abcdef>>>
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To have the output on one line, end the first
print with end= ‘’
print(’abc’, end = ‘’)
print(‘def’)
produces
>>>abcdef
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We’ll investigate the following program:
length = 87
width = 5
area = length*width
print(‘area =‘, area)
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If we wrote prin(‘def’) the computer would
respond with
• Traceback (most recent call last):
• File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
• prin('def')
• NameError: name 'prin' is not defined
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This is another example of a syntax error .
It is also called a compilation error since it
occurs during compilation time.
Such an error must be corrected before the
program will run.
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The following table describes how the variables are defined.
undef means undefined.
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statement length width area
length = 87 87 undef undef
width = 5 87 5 undef
area=length*width 87 5 435
print 87 5 435
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Now let’s analyze:
length = 87width = 5area = length*widthprint(‘area =‘, area)width = 3print(‘area =‘, area)
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We see that the width has been redefined.
What happens in the computer’s memory
is that the bits in the location width are
reconfigured.
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statement length width area
length = 87 87 undef undef
width = 5 87 5 undef
area=length*width 87 5 435
print 87 5 435
width = 3 87 3 435
print 87 3 435
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We see that since the area does not appearon the left side of an assignment statement,it is not redefined and the original valueof the area will be printed. This is called alogical error because it is an error inlogic and will produce the wrong results.You must detect a logical error yourself.
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In the corrected program we recalculate
the area as is shown in the next slide.
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length = 87
width = 5
area = length*width
print(‘area =‘, area)
width = 3
area = length*width
print(‘area =‘, area)