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8.4 Challenge: Find the Factors of a Number . . . . . . . 206
8.5 Break Out of the Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
8.6 Recover From Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
8.7 Simulate Events and Calculate Probabilities . . . . . 217
8.8 Challenge: Simulate a Coin Toss Experiment . . . . . 223
8.9 Challenge: Simulate an Election . . . . . . . . . . . 223
8.10 Summary and Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . 224
9 Tuples, Lists, and Dictionaries 226
9.1 Tuples Are Immutable Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 227
9.2 Lists Are Mutable Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
9.3 Nesting, Copying, and Sorting Tuples and Lists . . . 251
9.4 Challenge: List of lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
9.5 Challenge: Wax Poetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
9.6 Store Relationships in Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . 260
9.7 Challenge: Capital City Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
9.8 How to Pick a Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
9.9 Challenge: Cats With Hats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
9.10 Summary and Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . 274
10 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) 276
10.1 Define a Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
10.2 Instantiate an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
10.3 Inherit From Other Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
10.4 Challenge: Model a Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
10.5 Summary and Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . 297
11 Modules and Packages 298
11.1 Working With Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
11.2 Working With Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
11.3 Summary and Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . 318
12 File Input and Output 320
12.1 Files and the File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
12.2 Working With File Paths in Python . . . . . . . . . . 324
12.3 Common File System Operations . . . . . . . . . . . 333
12.4 Challenge: Move All Image Files to a New Directory . 350
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