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Lecture 13, Mon 11/20

Dictionaries and formatted strings

Resources from lecture

• Link to all code written in lecture

• Link to lecture slides and peer instruction questions

• Guidelines for using peer instruction - thanks to Dan Zingaro

Topics

• Python Dictionaries
• Practice: Reading from input files and creating different data structures in programs (lists, dictionaries and tuples)
• Learn additional list methods - sort, and how to use the method to sort in descending order
• String formatting
• Running Python programs on the command prompt: the shebang and sys.argv
• Overview of lab07