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Task 1 - Manipulate Property Data

In the first task, we will be learning how to generate a data structure by reading a string.
The string that you will read will contain a lot of information and we need to find a way to
store it in a neat and readable data structure such that it can be used for analysis later.

For our purposes, there are two types of properties: a house or an apartment

You will be using a string that we will call property_string. This string will contain
comma-separated values (CSV) of the following fields, in this particular order:

Please note that not all fields will have values for both types of properties. This has been mentioned in
the attribute description if this is the case. If a value is missing, there will be nothing between the
commas at that spot. Please see the examples below to make more sense of this.

1. prop_id: this will contain the property ID of the property


2. full_address: this will contain the address of the property. The address will be in
the following format:
○ In the case of a house: <street number> <street name> <street type>
<suburb> <state code> <postcode>
■ For example - 400 Toorak Road Toorak VIC 3142 or 17 Turella
Close Berwick VIC 3806
○ In the case of an apartment: <apartment number>/<street number>
<street name> <street type> <suburb> <state code> <postcode>
■ For example - 17/123 Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3168 or 1A/8
Rugby Road Hughesdale VIC 3166
○ Please note that the address will be space-delimited. If there is an apartment number
available, then you should consider the property an apartment. However, please note that
a / can appear in the address other than to separate the apartment number and the street
number.
3. bedrooms: this will contain the number of bedrooms in the property
4. bathrooms: this will contain the number of bathrooms in the property
5. parking_spaces: this will contain the number of parking spaces in the property
6. latitude: this will contain the latitude of the property
7. longitude: this will contain the longitude of the property
8. floor_number: this will contain the floor that the property is in (this will be missing
for houses)
9. land_area: this will contain the land area (in
10. m2
11. m
12. 2
13. ) of the property (this will be missing for apartments)
14. floor_area: this will contain the floor area (in
15. m2
16. m
17. 2
18. ) of the property
19. price: this will contain the predicted price of the property
20. property_features: This is a semi-colon-separated list of the features of the
property. This could include solar, air conditioning, dishwasher, floorboards,
central heating, etc. Note: this field can have 0 items and if it does, you should
make an empty list.

In this task, you will write a function called extract_information(property_string:


str) -> dict that takes in a property string as described above and creates a dictionary

for the property with the following keys (with data types of the values in the <>):

● prop_id <str>
● prop_type <str> (this should be set to either 'house' for a house or 'apartment'
for an apartment)
● full_address <str>
● suburb <str> (which you should extract from the address)
● bedrooms <int>
● bathrooms <int>
● parking_spaces <int>
● latitude <float>
● longitude <float>
● floor_number <int> (include this key only if applicable)
● land_area <int> (include this key only if applicable)
● floor_area <int>
● price <int>
● property_features <list of strings>

Some code has been given in the main function for you to test the running of your code
through a couple of examples. Please do not change the code in main, this should run
properly if you have programmed your function correctly.

Next, you will add two functions add_feature(property_dict: dict, feature: str)
and remove_feature(property_dict: dict, feature: str) that will add or remove a
feature from the property features list. These functions shouldn't return anything.

Please note that if the feature you are trying to add already exists, then ignore the new value, don't add
anything in. If you are trying to delete a feature that doesn't exist, then also ignore the request and don't do
anything.
Examples
If the property string is:

example_string = "P10001,3 Antrim Place Langwarrin VIC


3910,4,2,2,-38.16655678,145.1838435,,608,257,870000,dishwasher;central heating"

It should produce a dictionary like the one below:


property_dict = {
"prop_id" : "P10001",
"prop_type": "house",
"full_address" : "3 Antrim Place Langwarrin VIC 3910",
"suburb": "Langwarrin",
"bedrooms": 4,
"bathrooms": 2,
"parking_spaces": 2,
"latitude": -38.16655678,
"longitude": 145.1838435,
"land_area": 608,
"floor_area": 257,
"price": 870000,
"property_features": ['dishwasher','central heating']
}

As you can see in this dictionary, as this is a house, the key floor_number is not present.
Similarly, when you have a dictionary for an apartment, the key land_area should not be
present.

Another Example:

If the property string is:

example_string = "P10002,9 Delirium Road Toorak VIC


3142,4,2,2,-37.83993823378452,145.0067231018509,,521,357,1460000,"

It should produce a dictionary like the one below:

property_dict = {

"prop_id" : "P10002",

"prop_type": "house",
"full_address" : "9 Delirium Road Toorak VIC 3142",

"suburb": "Toorak",

"bedrooms": 4,

"bathrooms": 2,

"parking_spaces": 2,

"latitude": -37.83993823,

"longitude": 145.0067231,

"land_area": 521,

"floor_area": 357,

"price": 1460000,

"property_features": []

As you can see in this dictionary, since the string had no property features, it has an
empty list.

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