.py files containing your work. (If you upload a screenshot or other file format, you won't get credit.)This homework assignment must be submitted in Gradescope by 10am CST on Tuesday, September 21, 2021.
This homework assignment is about the topics of worksheet 4, i.e. strings, integers, and list comprehensions.lists, while loops and for loops.
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This homework assignment has 2 problems, numbered 2 and 3. The grading breakdown is:
| Points | Item |
|---|---|
| 2 | Autograder |
| 4 | Problem 2 |
| 4 | Problem 3 |
| 10 | Total |
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The state of Illinois is divided into 102 counties, and each county has a name. UIC is in Cook county.
This problem is about finding all counties in Illinois whose names have an even number of characters, and which contain the letter k somewhere in the name. Note that we are only interested in the lower case letter k, and the county names will be capitalized, so we don't consider the county named Kane to meet the criteria.
Below you'll find code that represents a partial solution. It contains a list of all counties, a statement meant to filter down to the counties of interest, and a for loop that will print the results.
Modify the line that contains the comment # <---- FIX THIS LINE so that it uses a list comprehension to find all the counties matching the conditions described above. Do not change anything else in the script. Save your modified script in hwk4prob2.py and submit it to Gradescope.
IMPORTANT: Unlike most MCS 260 problems, this one limits the ways you are allowed to solve the problem. Specifically:
all_illinois_counties = ['Adams', 'Alexander', 'Bond', 'Boone', 'Brown',
'Bureau', 'Calhoun', 'Carroll', 'Cass', 'Champaign',
'Christian', 'Clark', 'Clay', 'Clinton', 'Coles',
'Cook', 'Crawford', 'Cumberland', 'De', 'DeKalb',
'Douglas', 'DuPage', 'Edgar', 'Edwards', 'Effingham',
'Fayette', 'Ford', 'Franklin', 'Fulton', 'Gallatin',
'Greene', 'Grundy', 'Hamilton', 'Hancock', 'Hardin',
'Henderson', 'Henry', 'Iroquois', 'Jackson', 'Jasper',
'Jefferson', 'Jersey', 'Jo', 'Johnson', 'Kane',
'Kankakee', 'Kendall', 'Knox', 'LaSalle', 'Lake',
'Lawrence', 'Lee', 'Livingston', 'Logan', 'Macon',
'Macoupin', 'Madison', 'Marion', 'Marshall', 'Mason',
'Massac', 'McDonough', 'McHenry', 'McLean', 'Menard',
'Mercer', 'Monroe', 'Montgomery', 'Morgan', 'Moultrie',
'Ogle', 'Peoria', 'Perry', 'Piatt', 'Pike', 'Pope',
'Pulaski', 'Putnam', 'Randolph', 'Richland', 'Rock',
'Saline', 'Sangamon', 'Schuyler', 'Scott', 'Shelby',
'St. Clair', 'Stark', 'Stephenson', 'Tazewell', 'Union',
'Vermilion', 'Wabash', 'Warren', 'Washington', 'Wayne',
'White', 'Whiteside', 'Will', 'Williamson', 'Winnebago',
'Woodford']
even_len_k_counties = [ ... ] # <---- FIX THIS LINE
for name in even_len_k_counties:
print(name)
Write a program hwk4prob3.py that lets the user enter a string, which is expected to be the name of a county in the state of Illinois. The program should then print the name of the county in Illinois that comes after the one the user entered (in alphabetical order).
Here is a transcript of what using the program should look like:
Enter a county name: Bond
The alphabetically next county is: Booneand here is another example:
Enter a county name: Putnam
The alphabetically next county is: RandolphYour program doesn't need to do any error checking. If the user enters a string that is not a county name, or if they enter Woodford (the alphabetically last county name), then it is acceptable for your program to exit with some kind of error. You don't need to do anything to attempt to detect or handle such an error.
Hint: You can (and should) copy the list of county names from the previous problem into your code. That list is in alphanetical order.