Description
This homework assignment will give you practice with dictionaries, string processing and file input.
Getting Started
Visit Piazza and download the “bare bones” file homework4.py onto your computer, as well as
homework4 driver.py. Open homework4.py in PyCharm and fill in the following information at the top:
1. your first and last name as they appear in Blackboard
2. your Net ID (e.g., jsmith)
3. your Stony Brook ID # (e.g., 111999999)
4. the course number (CSE 101)
5. the assignment name and number (Homework #4)
Do not, under any circumstances, change the names of the functions or their argument lists. The grading software
will be looking for exactly those functions provided in homework4.py.
Submit your final homework4.py file to Blackboard by the due date and time. Late work will not be graded.
Code that crashes and cannot be graded will earn no credit. It is your responsibility to test your code by running
it through homework4.py and by creating your own test cases.
Part I: Password Strength Calculator (20 points)
Write a function password strength() that takes one argument, password, which is a string of characters
consisting of lowercase letters, uppercase letters, digits and non-alphanumerical symbols. The function allocates
points to password based on the location of certain characters in the string:
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Rule Points to Add
the first character is a digit 40
the last character is a digit 50
a digit that is anywhere else 25
the first character is an uppercase letter 25
the last character is an uppercase letter 15
an uppercase letter that is anywhere else 10
a lowercase letter that is anywhere 5
the first character is a symbol 25
the last character is a symbol 35
a symbol that is anywhere else 15
The function returns the total points allocated by the rules above multiplied by the length of the password. Doublecounting of points is acceptable in some (not all!) circumstances. For example, consider a string of length 1 that
contains an uppercase letter. What is the strength of that string?
For example, if password is ’Abce%’, the total points allocated by the rules above will be 75. Then, 75 × the
length of password (5) will give us the return value of 375 total points.
Note: You may assume that the password is non-empty.
Examples:
Function Call Return Value
password_strength(’fˆBAcG’) 360
password_strength(’tlX’) 75
password_strength(’W63UtHTuN’) 1170
password_strength(’f’) 5
password_strength(’Msq08#2w&GpMm’) 2275
password_strength(’qHjTt9YQ’) 680
password_strength(’gw74X5I2’) 1240
password_strength(’&9@%B9T(jZJ’) 1870
password_strength(’y*n(q%XxVp2’) 1540
password_strength(’!fxus’) 225
Part II: Order Up! (20 points)
Write a function order lunches() that takes two arguments, in this order:
1. stock: A dictionary that contains menu items available for purchase at a restaurant. The dictionary maps
items to an integer count of how many of each item is available (e.g., ’soda’:4).
2. orders: A list of strings representing items that patrons at the restaurant have ordered. The list might
include items not available for purchase.
The function iterates over the orders list, treating each string in the list as a key in the stock dictionary. If the
key is present in the dictionary, the function decrements the value associated with the key (provided that doing
so would not make the value negative). The function also returns the total number of valid items purchased. The
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function simply ignore strings in orders that are not valid keys in stock.
As an example, suppose stock were the dictionary
{’soda’: 0, ’burger’: 3, ’chips’: 5, ’pizza’: 7}
and orders were
[’soda’, ’sandwich’, ’burger’, ’pizza’, ’pizza’, ’burger’].
The function would update stock to
{’soda’: 0, ’burger’: 1, ’chips’: 5, ’pizza’: 5}
and would return 4.
Note that during grading, different menu items will be used!
Examples:
Function Call
order lunches([{’soda’: 8, ’burger’: 5, ’chips’: 5, ’pizza’: 7},
[’pizza’, ’pizza’, ’burger’, ’pizza’, ’pizza’, ’burger’, ’burger’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
7 {’soda’: 8, ’burger’: 2, ’chips’: 5, ’pizza’: 3}
Function Call
order lunches([{’burger’: 4, ’chips’: 10, ’pizza’: 6, ’soda’: 3},
[’soda’, ’salad’, ’pizza’, ’soda’, ’chips’, ’burger’, ’sandwich’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
5 {’burger’: 3, ’chips’: 9, ’pizza’: 5, ’soda’: 1}
Function Call
order lunches([{’soda’: 4, ’chips’: 4, ’pizza’: 8, ’burger’: 9},
[’soda’, ’chips’, ’chips’, ’burger’, ’pizza’, ’chips’, ’soda’, ’soup’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
7 {’soda’: 2, ’chips’: 1, ’pizza’: 7, ’burger’: 8}
Function Call
order lunches([{’chips’: 4, ’soda’: 6, ’pizza’: 6, ’burger’: 4},
[’burger’, ’pizza’, ’burger’, ’soup’, ’burger’, ’soda’, ’soda’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
6 {’chips’: 4, ’soda’: 4, ’pizza’: 5, ’burger’: 1}
Function Call
order lunches([{’soda’: 3, ’pizza’: 5, ’burger’: 6, ’chips’: 6},
[’steak’, ’chips’, ’soda’, ’chips’, ’burger’, ’soda’, ’chips’, ’chips’,
’pizza’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
8 {’soda’: 1, ’pizza’: 4, ’burger’: 5, ’chips’: 2}
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Function Call
order lunches([{’burger’: 5, ’soda’: 2, ’pizza’: 3, ’chips’: 1},
[’pizza’, ’soda’, ’pizza’, ’burger’, ’burger’, ’chips’, ’pizza’,
’chips’, ’soda’, ’chips’, ’chips’, ’burger’, ’burger’, ’soda’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
10 {’burger’: 1, ’soda’: 0, ’pizza’: 0, ’chips’: 0}
Function Call
order lunches([{’burger’: 3, ’pizza’: 4, ’chips’: 3, ’soda’: 0},
[’steak’, ’soda’, ’soup’, ’chips’, ’soda’, ’steak’, ’soda’, ’soda’,
’chips’, ’soda’, ’pizza’, ’burger’, ’pizza’, ’chips’, ’chips’, ’soda’,
’chips’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
6 {’burger’: 2, ’pizza’: 2, ’chips’: 0, ’soda’: 0}
Function Call
order lunches([{’burger’: 4, ’chips’: 3, ’pizza’: 3, ’soda’: 2},
[’salad’, ’soda’, ’pizza’, ’soda’, ’burger’, ’soda’, ’chips’, ’soda’,
’steak’, ’burger’, ’soda’, ’burger’, ’burger’, ’burger’, ’burger’,
’soup’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
8 {’burger’: 0, ’chips’: 2, ’pizza’: 2, ’soda’: 0}
Function Call
order lunches([{’chips’: 5, ’soda’: 3, ’burger’: 3, ’pizza’: 1},
[’soda’, ’chips’, ’pizza’, ’pizza’, ’chips’, ’salad’, ’chips’, ’steak’,
’soda’, ’soda’, ’chips’, ’burger’, ’pizza’]])
Return Value Updated stock Value
9 {’chips’: 1, ’soda’: 0, ’burger’: 2, ’pizza’: 0}
Part III: Population Data (20 points)
Write a function sum populations() that takes five arguments, in this order:
1. which continent: one of the following strings: ’Africa’, ’Americas’, ’Asia’, ’Europe’ or
’Oceania’
2. min gdp: a positive integer
3. countries: a dictionary that maps a continent name to a list of some of the countries in that continent
4. gdps: a dictionary that maps a country name to that country’s GDP (gross domestic product) in millions
USD ($MM)
5. populations: a dictionary that maps a country name to its population
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Here are sample arguments that could be passed to the function:
1. which continent = ’Africa’
2. min gdp = 1529760
3. countries = {
’Americas’: [’Argentina’, ’Uruguay’, ’Brazil’, ’Puerto Rico’, ’Panama’],
’Oceania’: [’Fiji’, ’Australia’, ’New Zealand’, ’Papua New Guinea’],
’Asia’: [’Myanmar’, ’Israel’],
’Africa’: [’Senegal’, ’Lesotho’, ’South Africa’, ’Togo’, ’Sierra Leone’],
’Europe’: [’Norway’, ’Greece’]
}
4. gdps = {
’Argentina’: 545866, ’Uruguay’: 52420, ’Brazil’: 1796186,
’Puerto Rico’: 103135, ’Panama’: 55188, ’Fiji’: 4632,
’Australia’: 1204616, ’New Zealand’: 185017, ’Papua New Guinea’: 16929,
’Myanmar’: 67430, ’Israel’: 318744, ’Senegal’: 14765, ’Lesotho’: 2200,
’South Africa’: 294841, ’Togo’: 4400, ’Sierra Leone’: 3669,
’Norway’: 370557, ’Greece’: 194559}
5. populations = {’Argentina’: 43847430, ’Uruguay’: 3444006,
’Brazil’: 207652865, ’Puerto Rico’: 3667903, ’Panama’: 4034119,
’Fiji’: 898760, ’Australia’: 24125848, ’New Zealand’: 4660833,
’Papua New Guinea’: 8084991, ’Myanmar’: 52885223, ’Israel’: 8191828,
’Senegal’: 15411614, ’Lesotho’: 2203821, ’South Africa’: 56015473,
’Togo’: 7606374, ’Sierra Leone’: 7396190, ’Norway’: 5254694,
’Greece’: 11183716}
Using the given arguments, the function computes and returns the sum of populations of all countries that are
located in continent and which have a GDP that is greater than or equal to min gdp.
For example, suppose which continent = ’Americas’ and min gdp = 1000000. The function would
consult the countries dictionary to get a list of countries from the Americas. It would then consult the gdps
dictionary to find all countries with a GDP of at least $1,000,000M and add together the populations of all such
countries.
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Examples:
Due to the large amount of space consumed by examples, only two are provided here. See the driver file for more
test cases.
Function Call Return Value
sum populations(’Africa’, 42690,
{’Americas’: [’Panama’, ’Guatemala’], ’Oceania’: [’New
Zealand’, ’Australia’, ’Fiji’], ’Asia’: [’Vietnam’,
’South Korea’, ’Israel’], ’Africa’: [’Lesotho’, ’Burundi’,
’Algeria’, ’Cameroon’, ’Angola’], ’Europe’: [’Finland’,
’Luxembourg’, ’Russia’, ’Belarus’, ’Ukraine’]},
{’Panama’: 55188, ’Guatemala’: 68763, ’New Zealand’:
185017, ’Australia’: 1204616, ’Fiji’: 4632, ’Vietnam’:
202616, ’South Korea’: 1411246, ’Israel’: 318744, ’Lesotho’:
2200, ’Burundi’: 3007, ’Algeria’: 156080, ’Cameroon’:
24204, ’Angola’: 89633, ’Finland’: 236785, ’Luxembourg’:
59948, ’Russia’: 1283162, ’Belarus’: 47433, ’Ukraine’:
93270},
{’Panama’: 4034119, ’Guatemala’: 16582469, ’New Zealand’:
4660833, ’Australia’: 24125848, ’Fiji’: 898760, ’Vietnam’:
94569072, ’South Korea’: 50791919, ’Israel’: 8191828,
’Lesotho’: 2203821, ’Burundi’: 10524117, ’Algeria’:
40606052, ’Cameroon’: 23439189, ’Angola’: 28813463,
’Finland’: 5503132, ’Luxembourg’: 575747, ’Russia’:
143964513, ’Belarus’: 9480042, ’Ukraine’: 44438625})
69419515
sum populations(’Oceania’, 386428,
{’Americas’: [’Peru’, ’Dominican Republic’, ’United States’],
’Oceania’: [’New Zealand’, ’Australia’], ’Asia’: [’India’,
’Jordan’, ’Tajikistan’], ’Africa’: [’Benin’, ’Central African
Republic’, ’South Africa’, ’Namibia’, ’Rwanda’], ’Europe’:
[’Germany’, ’Luxembourg’, ’Russia’]},
{’Peru’: 192094, ’Dominican Republic’: 71584, ’United
States’: 18624475, ’New Zealand’: 185017, ’Australia’:
1204616, ’India’: 2263792, ’Jordan’: 38655, ’Tajikistan’:
6952, ’Benin’: 8583, ’Central African Republic’: 1756,
’South Africa’: 294841, ’Namibia’: 10267, ’Rwanda’:
8376, ’Germany’: 3477796, ’Luxembourg’: 59948, ’Russia’:
1283162},
{’Peru’: 31773839, ’Dominican Republic’: 10648791,
’United States’: 322179605, ’New Zealand’: 4660833,
’Australia’: 24125848, ’India’: 1324171354, ’Jordan’:
9455802, ’Tajikistan’: 8734951, ’Benin’: 10872298, ’Central
African Republic’: 4594621, ’South Africa’: 56015473,
’Namibia’: 2479713, ’Rwanda’: 11917508, ’Germany’:
81914672, ’Luxembourg’: 575747, ’Russia’: 143964513})
24125848
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Part IV: Assembling a Course Roster (20 points)
In this part you will write a function that opens a file containing a list of students enrolled in courses and extract
some data from the file. Each line of the file (after the first line) contains the name of a student, followed by the
student’s ID number, followed by a course code, followed by the number of credits for the course. These four
quantities are separated by commas. The first line always contains the string
’Name,StudentID,CourseCode,Credits’.
Complete the function get roster() that takes the following arguments, in this order:
1. filename: The name of a file that the function will read data from. You may assume that the file is always
validly formatted.
2. course: A string representing a course code we are interested in.
The function reads each line of the file filename and returns the list of ID numbers of students enrolled in the
designated course. You may assume that each line of data in the file will always follow the following format:
(Student’s Name, Student’s ID #, Course Code, # of Credits). Note that ALL values in the file are treated as
strings, even values we would normally treat as numerical. Below is a portion of a sample input file:
Name,StudentID,CourseCode,Credits
Ariel,110071434,CSE101,3
Aldo,110071435,CSE220,3
Julio,110071432,CSE220,3
Aldo,110071435,CSE114,4
Natalie,110071433,CSE214,3
Ariel,110071434,CSE219,4
Destiny,110071436,CSE214,3
Note: When reading each line, make sure to use the strip() function to get rid of any newlines and/or spaces
before or after each line.
Examples:
See Piazza for the contents of students1.txt, students2.txt and students3.txt. Different files
will be used during grading.
Function Call Return Value
get roster(’students1.txt’, ’CSE220’) [’110071435’, ’110071432’,
’110071434’]
get roster(’students1.txt’, ’CSE114’) [’110071435’, ’110071434’]
get roster(’students1.txt’, ’CSE475’) [’110071436’, ’110071435’]
get roster(’students1.txt’, ’CSE219’) [’110071434’, ’110071432’,
’110071433’]
get roster(’students1.txt’, ’CSE214’) [’110071433’, ’110071436’]
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get roster(’students2.txt’, ’CSE219’) [’110071438’]
get roster(’students2.txt’, ’CSE214’) [’110071447’, ’110071450’,
’110071441’, ’110071442’]
get roster(’students2.txt’, ’CSE220’) [’110071446’, ’110071449’,
’110071448’]
get roster(’students2.txt’, ’CSE114’) [’110071449’, ’110071447’,
’110071444’, ’110071441’,
’110071448’, ’110071437’]
get roster(’students2.txt’, ’CSE101’) [’110071437’, ’110071446’]
get roster(’students3.txt’, ’CSE220’) [’110071434’, ’110071441’,
’110071438’, ’110071449’,
’110071439’, ’110071445’,
’110071435’]
get roster(’students3.txt’, ’CSE101’) [’110071442’, ’110071438’,
’110071435’, ’110071448’,
’110071432’]
get roster(’students3.txt’, ’CSE219’) [’110071435’, ’110071442’,
’110071446’, ’110071438’,
’110071437’]
get roster(’students3.txt’, ’CSE114’) [’110071451’, ’110071441’,
’110071437’, ’110071435’]
get roster(’students3.txt’, ’CSE214’) [’110071449’, ’110071440’,
’110071436’]
Part V: Fetch Information (20 points)
In this part we will generalize the results of the previous part to files that contain information other than course
enrollment data. The first line of the file will contain a comma-separated list of strings that define the format of
the file. Some examples:
• Car data: Make,Model,Year
• CPU data: Manufacturer,Model,NumCores,ClockSpeed
• House data: Town,Year,Price,NumRooms,Taxes
Write a function fetch value() that takes the following arguments, in this order:
1. filename: The name of a file the function will read data from. All fields in the file will be separated by
commas. You may assume that the file is always validly formatted.
2. selected field: The name of the field from which we are reading values.
3. searched field: The name of the field we are using to search the data.
4. searched value: The value of the searched field that we are trying to match.
To understand the meaning of these arguments, suppose the function were called on CPU data (with fields
Manufacturer,Model,NumCores,ClockSpeed) with the following arguments:
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fetch value(’cpu.txt’, ’Manufacturer’, ’ClockSpeed’, ’3’). This function call indicates
that we want a list of CPU manufacturers whose CPU’s ClockSpeed field has a value of ’3’. (Duplicated values are expected, and the number of copies of a selected value must equal the number of lines that match the
search value. Do not sort the returned list.) Note that ALL values in the file are treated as strings, even
values we would normally treat as numerical.
More generally speaking, the function reads from the given file and finds lines where the value in the
searched field “column” matches the searched value function argument. When such a line is found,
the function appends the corresponding value of selected field column into the returned list.
Examples:
See Piazza for the contents of clothing.txt and sundaes.txt. Different files will be used during grading.
Function Call
fetch value(’sundaes.txt’, ’Topping’, ’Flavor’, ’RockyRoad’)
Return Value
[’WhippedCream’, ’WhippedCream’, ’ChocolateChips’, ’ChocolateChips’,
’Sprinkles’, ’WhippedCream’, ’ChocolateChips’, ’ChocolateChips’,
’Sprinkles’, ’Sprinkles’, ’ChocolateChips’]
Function Call
fetch value(’sundaes.txt’, ’Flavor’, ’Size’, ’Medium’)
Return Value
[’Strawberry’, ’RockyRoad’, ’Strawberry’, ’Vanilla’, ’Strawberry’,
’RockyRoad’, ’Strawberry’, ’Chocolate’, ’Chocolate’, ’Chocolate’,
’Chocolate’, ’RockyRoad’, ’Strawberry’, ’Vanilla’, ’Chocolate’,
’Vanilla’]
Function Call
fetch value(’sundaes.txt’, ’Syrup’, ’Topping’, ’WhippedCream’)
Return Value
[’Fudge’, ’Fudge’, ’Fudge’, ’Fudge’, ’Blueberry’, ’Blueberry’,
’Blueberry’, ’Fudge’, ’Blueberry’, ’Caramel’, ’Fudge’, ’Caramel’,
’Blueberry’, ’Fudge’, ’Caramel’]
Function Call
fetch value(’sundaes.txt’, ’Topping’, ’Syrup’, ’Fudge’)
Return Value
[’WhippedCream’, ’WhippedCream’, ’WhippedCream’, ’WhippedCream’,
’ChocolateChips’, ’ChocolateChips’, ’Sprinkles’, ’Sprinkles’,
’ChocolateChips’, ’Sprinkles’, ’WhippedCream’, ’WhippedCream’,
’ChocolateChips’, ’WhippedCream’, ’ChocolateChips’]
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Function Call
fetch value(’clothing.txt’, ’BodyType’, ’BodyType’, ’Girl’)
Return Value
[’Girl’, ’Girl’, ’Girl’, ’Girl’, ’Girl’, ’Girl’, ’Girl’]
Function Call
fetch value(’clothing.txt’, ’ClothingType’, ’BodyType’, ’Woman’)
Return Value
[’Pants’, ’Socks’, ’Coat’, ’Pants’, ’Coat’, ’Coat’, ’Pants’]
Function Call
fetch value(’clothing.txt’, ’Manufacturer’, ’Size’, ’Small’)
Return Value
[’Chanel’, ’Aeropostale’, ’Lee’, ’Lee’, ’Adidas’, ’Levi’, ’Lee’, ’Lee’,
’Aeropostale’, ’Levi’, ’Lee’, ’Levi’]
Function Call
fetch value(’clothing.txt’, ’Price’, ’Size’, ’XL’)
Return Value
[’24’, ’42’, ’60’, ’60’, ’24’]
How to Submit Your Work for Grading
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4. Click the “Browse My Computer” button and locate the .py file you wish to submit. Submit only that one
.py file.
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