Dictionaries Due Oct 7, 2:59 PM SGT

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1. Which of the following expressions corresponds to a dictionary with no elements? 1 / 1 point

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dict()

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2. Given an existing dictionary favorites, what Python statement adds the key "fruit" to this 1 / 1 point
dictionary with the corresponding value "blackberry"?

favorites["fruit" = "blackberry"]

favorites{"fruit" : "blackberry"}

favorites = {"fruit" : "blackberry"}

favorites["fruit"] = "blackberry"

favorites["fruit" : "blackberry"]

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3. Which of the expressions below returns True when the dictionary my_dictionary contains the key 1 / 1 point
my_key and False otherwise?

my_key in my_dictionary

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my_dictionary.has_key(my_key)

my_dictionary.key(my_key)

my_dictionary[my_key]

4. Keys in a dictionary can have which of the following types? 1 / 1 point

list

bool

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Booleans are immutable.

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int

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Integers are immutable.

5. Values in a dictionary can have which of the following types? 1 / 1 point

string

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dict

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tuple

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bool

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6. Consider the following dictionary: 1 / 1 point

1 instructor_ratings = {"Joe" : "awesome", "Scott" : "hmmm..."}

What happens when Python evaluates the expression instructor_ratings["John"]?

Since "John" is not a key in the dictionary, Python raises a KeyError exception.

Python returns the value None since "John" is not a key in the dictionary.

Since "John" is not a value in the dictionary, Python raises a KeyError exception.

Since "John" is not a key in the dictionary, Python raises a syntax error.

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7. Write a function count_letters(word_list) that takes as input a list of words that are 1 / 1 point
composed entirely of lower case letters . This function should return the lower case letter that
appears most frequently (total number of occurrences) in the words in word_list. (In the case of
ties, return the earliest letter in alphabetical order.)

The Python code snippet below represents a start at implementing count_letters using a
dictionary letter_count whose keys are the lower case letters and whose values are the
corresponding number of occurrences of each letter in the strings in word_list.

1 def count_letters(word_list):
2 """ See question description """
3
4 ALPHABET = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
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6 letter_count = {}
7 for letter in ALPHABET:
8 letter_count[letter] = 0
9
10 # enter code here

Complete your implementation of count_letters based on this snippet. As a test,

count_letters(["hello", "world"]) should return the letter ’l’ since ’l’ appears 3 times
total in the strings "hello" and "world".

When you are con dent in your code, compute the lower case letter return by
count_letters(monty_words) where monty_words is de ned as shown.

1 monty_quote = "listen strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no

  basis for a system of government supreme executive power derives from a
  mandate from the masses not from some farcical aquatic ceremony"
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3 monty_words = monty_quote.split(" ")

Enter this single letter in the text box below. Do not include any spaces or enclosing quotes around
the letter.

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The letter ’e’ appears 20 times in the quote.