Python "open mike" events at UiT

Exercises (contributed solutions)

1. Create a list a containing (floating point) numbers. Now create a new list b with each element of a squared.
2. Combine two lists [a1, a2, ...] and [b1, b2, ...] to a list of tuples: [(a1, b1), (a2, b2), ...]
3. Take some text (can be few paragraphs) from Project Gutenberg and find the 5 most frequent characters and 5 most frequent words. Ignore all punctuation and we recommend to lowercase the entire text.
4. Consider the following animal observations:

observations = {
    'forest': ['cow', 'cow', 'sheep', 'sheep', 'pig', 'sheep'],
    'plains': ['horse', 'horse', 'sheep', 'horse'],
    'jungle': ['ocelot', 'parrot', 'sheep', 'parrot'],
}

Try to answer with code:

• How many distinct species were observed in each biome?
• How many sheep were observed in total?
• Are there any species that appear in all biomes?
• Which animals are only found in the jungle?
• Which is the most common animal of all?
• Are parrots found only in the jungle?