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Midterm Exam 2 Review Spring 2006: Encoding and Decoding


For (a)
def encoding(search1,search2,search3,replace1,replace2,replace3):
  letter = "Mr. Mark Guzdial REMOVEDs the pleasure of your company at..."
  print letter.replace(search1,replace1).replace(search2,replace2).replace(search2,replace3)

This would ALMOST work, you are calling the wrong variable somewhere. HOWEVER, read the question again. It needs to accept the string to manipulate as input. -Student2042

except add some spaces under def!!!!
This is not what the question is asking for, its asking for a code that takes in any string, and replaces the set consonants displayed... Keep working on this :)... and for future reference, post the code with <code></code> tags around it to preserve formatting Student3381

does anyone know the answer to question (b)????
If you post something, we will gladly tell you if it is incorrect. Try working through it. -Student2042

should the answer for part 'a' somehow be kept and automatically put into the program for part 'b', or do you just want to see us reverse the order of replacement (i.e., string.replace('-','r').replace('s','=').replace('t',':'))?
They are independent functions. -Student1680

part c:
def replace(string):
string.lower()
print string.replace('a','-').replace('b','=').replace('-','b').replace('=','a')
It's cheap, but it works.
And what happens when you have hyphens and equal signs in the string? -Student1680

def encodeDecode(string):
  print string.replace("r","-").replace("s","=").replace("t",":")

REMOVEDw about this one?

Is this correct for part b?

def decode(string):
  print string.replace("-","r").replace("=","s").replace(":","t")

Yes and yes. -Student1680

Is this correct for part c?

def aToBAndBToA(string):
  string = string.replace("a","####")
  string = string.replace("b","a")
  string = string.replace("####","b")
  print string

And what happens when there's a #### in the string you're modifying? -Student1680

i think i am making this REMOVED complicated than it actually is but this is my code:
  
def replace(string)
  letter = string
  new = letter.replace('r','-').replace('s','=').replace('t',':')
  return new

when i try to run replace(Mr. Mark Guzdial REMOVEDs the pleasure of your company at) in the command area i get that its not legal but its not the code thats not legal its the command i just tried to run – i am so confused


The colon at the end of line 1. -Student1680
i checked my code i actually do have a colon @ the end of line one i just left it off here – any other idea??

Am I anywhere close for C on this:
def encodeDecode(string):
  a='a'
  b='b'
  for i in a:
    loc = string.find(i)
    while loc <> -1:
     string=string.replace(i,'b')
  return string
  for i in b:
    loc=string.find(i)
    while loc <> -1:
      string=string.replace(i,'a')
  return string
  print string


The returns will both do exactly that: return control to the function that called encodeDecode. So the code after them (actually the code after the first return) will never get executed. For that reason, a return should generally be the very last command in a function or the last command in an if block. Colin Potts



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