solution to strings and lists assignment

Author: error-driven-dev

strings_and_lists.py

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+words = "It's thanksgiving day. It's my birthday,too!"
+
+index = words.find("day")
+print index
+new_str = words.replace("day", "month")
+print new_str
+
+x = [2,54,-2,7,12,98]
+def newList(list):
+    print min(list)
+    print max(list)
+newList(x);
+
+def firstAndLast(list):
+    newList = []
+    newList.append(list[0])
+    newList.append(list[-1])
+    print newList
+firstAndLast(x);
+
+y = [19,2,54,-2,7,12,98,32,10,-3,6]
+y.sort()
+first = y[:5]
+second = y[4:]
+print second
+print first
+second.insert(0, first)
+print second
+
+
+#sorts in place; if not sorting in place would save to a var
+y.sort() 
+first = y[:len(y)/2]
+second = y[len(y)/2:]
+print first
+print second
+second.insert(0, first)
+print second
+
+#insert does not work when saving to a var -- not sure why
+y = [19,2,54,-2,7,12,98,32,10,-3,6]
+y.sort()
+first = y[:5]
+second = y[5:]
+print second
+newNested =second.insert(0, first)
+print newNested