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Intro to Python for Language Processing

This document provides instructions for several computer programming exercises involving modules in Python: 1. It instructs the reader to create a simple module called "mytest.py" with basic functions, import and test the module, and add additional functions to print lists and check list items against a dictionary. 2. It describes downloading and running a pre-existing module that analyzes word frequencies in a text file, and examining the output object. 3. The reader is tasked with adding a function to the previous module to print a dictionary's contents, and notes potential issues reading files. 4. Two optional harder problems are outlined: adapting the print function to order output alphabetically or by frequency.

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Intro to Python for Language Processing

This document provides instructions for several computer programming exercises involving modules in Python: 1. It instructs the reader to create a simple module called "mytest.py" with basic functions, import and test the module, and add additional functions to print lists and check list items against a dictionary. 2. It describes downloading and running a pre-existing module that analyzes word frequencies in a text file, and examining the output object. 3. The reader is tasked with adding a function to the previous module to print a dictionary's contents, and notes potential issues reading files. 4. Two optional harder problems are outlined: adapting the print function to order output alphabetically or by frequency.

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Computer Programming for Speech and Language Processing:

Tutorial 2

1 creating your first module


• Start idle and select file, new from the top menu.
• In the window that opens define a simple function to print your name and then save the file
calling it mytest.py
• To load this module in python:
– First restart the python shell (interpreter) from the shell menu (This restarts python
without quitting idle)
– import your module with the command: import mytest
• Test your function
• Add to this module a function which takes a list of integers and prints only those which are
less than 100.
• Test your function
• Add to the module a function with takes a list and a dictionary as arguments and tells you
whether each item in the list is in the dictionary and if so what its value is.
• Test this function

Work out on the system in which directory/folder the file mytest.py is because this is where you
will need to save other files in this tutorial.

2 Using predefined modules


• From WebCT download the files get word frequencies.py and scotland.txt from
the tutorials/code folder
• Load the module into python and run the function it defines. (Open the module in Idle to see
the code)
• Examine the object returned by the function

3 Adding to the module


• Add to the previous module a function which takes a dictionary as input and prints out the
contents.
• Notice the problems with the way we read the file as discussed in the lecture.

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4 Harder and much harder problems

I don’t necessarily expect you to be able to do these:

• Adapt your print function to print the output in alphabetical order.

• Adapt your print function to print the output in frequency order


Hint: Read in the textbooks about the different methods available for dictionary objects.

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