Ricardo Santos - lab done: functions extra

functions.py

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+def get_unique_list_f(lst):
+    """
+    Takes a list as an argument and returns a new list with unique elements from the first list.
+
+    Parameters:
+    lst (list): The input list.
+
+    Returns:
+    list: A new list with unique elements from the input list.
+    """
+    # your code goes here
+    new_list = list(set(lst))
+    return new_list
+
+def count_case_f(string):
+    """
+    Returns the number of uppercase and lowercase letters in the given string.
+
+    Parameters:
+    string (str): The string to count uppercase and lowercase letters in.
+
+    Returns:
+    A tuple containing the count of uppercase and lowercase letters in the string.
+    """
+    # your code goes here
+    up = 0
+    low = 0
+    for char in string:
+            if char.isupper():
+                up += 1
+            elif char.islower():
+                low += 1
+    t = (up, low)
+    print(f"Uppercase count: {up}, Lowercase count: {low}")
+    return t
+
+
+def remove_punctuation_f(sentence):
+    """
+    Removes all punctuation marks (commas, periods, exclamation marks, question marks) from a sentence.
+
+    Parameters:
+    sentence (str): A string representing a sentence.
+
+    Returns:
+    str: The sentence without any punctuation marks.
+    """
+    # your code goes here
+    new_string = sentence.replace(',', '').replace('.', '').replace('!', '').replace('?', '').replace(':', '')
+    print(new_string)
+    return new_string
+
+def word_count_f(sentence):
+    """
+    Counts the number of words in a given sentence. To do this properly, first it removes punctuation from the sentence.
+    Note: A word is defined as a sequence of characters separated by spaces. We can assume that there will be no leading or trailing spaces in the input sentence.
+
+    Parameters:
+    sentence (str): A string representing a sentence.
+
+    Returns:
+    int: The number of words in the sentence.
+    """
+    # your code goes here
+    cleaned_sentence = remove_punctuation_f(sentence)
+    words = cleaned_sentence.split()
+    count = len(words)
+    print(f"Word count: {count}")
+    return count
+
+