#!/usr/bin/env PYTHONHASHSEED=1234 python3 # Copyright 2014-2019 Brett Slatkin, Pearson Education Inc. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # Reproduce book environment import random random.seed(1234) import logging from pprint import pprint from sys import stdout as STDOUT # Write all output to a temporary directory import atexit import gc import io import os import tempfile TEST_DIR = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() atexit.register(TEST_DIR.cleanup) # Make sure Windows processes exit cleanly OLD_CWD = os.getcwd() atexit.register(lambda: os.chdir(OLD_CWD)) os.chdir(TEST_DIR.name) def close_open_files(): everything = gc.get_objects() for obj in everything: if isinstance(obj, io.IOBase): obj.close() atexit.register(close_open_files) # Example 1 x = ['red', 'orange', 'yellow', 'green', 'blue', 'purple'] odds = x[::2] evens = x[1::2] print(odds) print(evens) # Example 2 x = b'mongoose' y = x[::-1] print(y) # Example 3 x = '寿司' y = x[::-1] print(y) # Example 4 try: w = '寿司' x = w.encode('utf-8') y = x[::-1] z = y.decode('utf-8') except: logging.exception('Expected') else: assert False # Example 5 x = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h'] x[::2] # ['a', 'c', 'e', 'g'] x[::-2] # ['h', 'f', 'd', 'b'] # Example 6 x[2::2] # ['c', 'e', 'g'] x[-2::-2] # ['g', 'e', 'c', 'a'] x[-2:2:-2] # ['g', 'e'] x[2:2:-2] # [] # Example 7 y = x[::2] # ['a', 'c', 'e', 'g'] z = y[1:-1] # ['c', 'e'] print(x) print(y) print(z)