Python Workout
50 ten-minute exercises
Reuven M. Lerner
  • July 2020
  • ISBN 9781617295508
  • 248 pages
  • printed in black & white

Whether you’re a Python novice or, like me, have been away from the language for a while, this book is a great way to build strength with Python.

Mark Elston, Advantest America
The only way to master a skill is to practice. In Python Workout, author Reuven M. Lerner guides you through 50 carefully selected exercises that invite you to flex your programming muscles. As you take on each new challenge, you'll build programming skill and confidence. The thorough explanations help you lock in what you've learned and apply it to your own projects. Along the way, Python Workout provides over four hours of video instruction walking you through the solutions to each exercise and dozens of additional exercises for you to try on your own.

About the Technology

To become a champion Python programmer you need to work out, building mental muscle with your hands on the keyboard. Each carefully selected exercise in this unique book adds to your Python prowess—one important skill at a time.

About the book

Python Workout presents 50 exercises that focus on key Python 3 features. In it, expert Python coach Reuven Lerner guides you through a series of small projects, practicing the skills you need to tackle everyday tasks. You'll appreciate the clear explanations of each technique, and you can watch Reuven solve each exercise in the accompanying videos.
Table of Contents detailed table of contents

1 Numeric types

Useful references

Exercise 1 — Number guessing game

Working it out

Solution

Screencast solution

Beyond the exercise

Exercise 2 — Summing numbers

Working it out

Solution

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 3 — Run timing

Working it out

Solution

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 4 — Hexadecimal output

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Summary

2 Strings

Useful references

Exercise 5 — Pig Latin

Working it out

Solution

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 6 — Pig Latin sentence

Working it out

Solution

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 7 — Ubbi Dubbi

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 8 — Sorting a string

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Summary

3 Lists and tuples

Exercise 9 — First-last

Working it out

Solution

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 10 — Summing anything

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 11 — Alphabetizing names

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 12 — Word with most repeated letters

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 13 — Printing tuple records

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Beyond the exercise

Summary

4 Dictionaries and sets

Hashing and dicts

Sets

Exercise 14 — Restaurant

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 15 — Rainfall

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 16 — Dictdiff

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 17 — How many different numbers?

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Summary

5 Files

Exercise 18 — Final line

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 19 — /etc/passwd to dict

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Exercise 20 — Word count

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Exercise 21 — Longest word per file

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 22 — Reading and writing CSV

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 23 — JSON

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 24 — Reverse lines

Working it out

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Summary

6 Functions

Exercise 25 — XML generator

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 26 — Prefix notation calculator

Working it out

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Exercise 27 — Password generator

Working it out

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Summary

7 Functional programming with comprehensions

Exercise 28 — Join numbers

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 29 — Add numbers

Working it out

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Exercise 30 — Flatten a list

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Exercise 31 — Pig Latin translation of a file

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Exercise 32 — Flip a dict

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Exercise 33 — Transform values

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Exercise 34 — (Almost) supervocalic words

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Exercise 35a — Gematria, part 1

Working it out

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Exercise 35b — Gematria, part 2

Working it out

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Summary

8 Modules and packages

Exercise 36 — Sales tax

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Exercise 37 — Menu

Working it out

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Summary

9 Objects

Exercise 38 — Ice cream scoop

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Exercise 39 — Ice cream bowl

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Exercise 40 — Bowl limits

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Exercise 41 — A bigger bowl

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Exercise 42 — FlexibleDict

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Exercise 43 — Animals

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Exercise 44 — Cages

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Exercise 45 — Zoo

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Summary

10 Iterators and generators

Exercise 46 — MyEnumerate

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Exercise 47 — Circle

Working it out

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Exercise 48 — All lines, all files

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Exercise 49 — Elapsed since

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Exercise 50 — MyChain

Working it out

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Beyond the exercise

Summary

Conclusion

What's inside

  • 50 hands-on exercises and solutions
  • Coverage of all Python data types
  • Dozens more bonus exercises for extra practice

About the reader

For readers with basic Python knowledge.

About the author

Reuven M. Lerner teaches Python and data science to companies around the world.

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