These gists are from an intro to Python class I took in July 2013.

Name

#This assignment was to play with text.

# 1) Ask the user for their name
# 2) Print their name backwards
# 3) Print their name 10 times with spaces between each name.

#name = raw_input ("What is your name?")
name = "Zhila"
print name[::-1]
#print name[1:]
#print name[0:3:2]

letters=[]
for char in name:
    print letters.append(char)
print "Letters of my name:", letters
letters.reverse()
print letters
print "".join(letters)

for i in range(10):
    print name,
    #print (name+" ")*10

NumberGuessingGame

#This assignment was to create a number guessing game, using the parameters below. 


# 1) Ask the user their name.
# 2) Generate a random number between 1 and 20.
# 3) Give the user 5 guesses to guess the number.
# 4) If the user is wrong, tell them "high" or "low"
# 5) If the user is right, tell them they won and exit.
# 6) If they don't get the answer right in 5 tries, tell them they lost and exit.

from random import randint
import shelve
stats = shelve.open("guess_stats.shelf")

name = raw_input("What is your name?")
name = str(name)
if name in stats:
    print "Welcome back", name
    user_stats = stats[name]
else:
    print "Welcome to the game", name
    user_stats = {"wins": 0, "losses":0}
print "You have %s wins and %s losses" % (user_stats["wins"], user_stats["losses"])

random_number = randint(1,20)
print(random_number)
guess = raw_input("Guess what the number is, between 1 and 20:")
try:
    guess = int(guess)
except ValueError:
    guess = int(raw_input("Not an integer. Try again."))

for i in range(5):
    if guess > 20 or guess < 0:
        guess = int(raw_input("Please give me a number between 1 and 20."))
    if  random_number > guess:
        guess = int(raw_input("Too low! Try again."))
    elif random_number < guess:
        guess= int(raw_input("Too high! Try again."))
    else:
        print "You win!"

if guess == random_number:
    print "You win!"
    user_stats["wins"] += 1
else:
    print "So sorry, you lost."
    user_stats["losses"] += 1

stats[name] = user_stats
stats.close()

TaleofTwoCities

#This assignment was to pull text from a .txt copy of A Tale of Two Cities, count the words and distinct words, and then do search functions with the text.

# 1) Get all the stuff from the file.
# 2) Turn the text into words.
# 3) Count the total words
# 4) count the distinct words.

f = open("TaleOfTwoCities.txt", "r")
text = f.read()
f.close()

print "Hello world, I'm learning python".split()
words = text.split()

#print type(words)
print "Total number of words in ToTC:", len(words)

word_counts = {}
for word in words:
    if word in word_counts:
        word_counts[word] +=1
    else:
        word_counts[word] = 1

#for word, count in word_counts.items()[:10]:
 #   print word, count

#print word_counts.items()[:5]

ordered_counts = sorted(word_counts.items(),
                        key=lambda x: x[1],
                        reverse=True)

for word, count in ordered_counts[:10]:
    print count, word

find_word = raw_input("What word are you looking for? ")
if find_word in word_counts:
    print "Yes, %s is in the book." % find_word
else:
    print "Nope, %s is not in book." % find_word

# Get all words that are less than or equal to 10
for word,count in word_counts.items():
    if count <= 2:
        #print word, "appears", count, "times"
        print "%s appears %s times." % (word, count)