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The Python Apprentice

You're reading from   The Python Apprentice Introduction to the Python Programming Language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293181
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
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Austin Bingham Austin Bingham
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Robert Smallshire Robert Smallshire
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting started FREE CHAPTER 2. Strings and Collections 3. Modularity 4. Built-in types and the object model 5. Exploring Built-in Collection types 6. Exceptions 7. Comprehensions, iterables, and generators 8. Defining new types with classes 9. Files and Resource Management 10. Unit testing with the Python standard library 11. Debugging with PDB 12. Afterword – Just the Beginning
13. Virtual Environments 14. Packaging and Distribution 15. Installing Third-Party Packages

Palindrome debugging

Rather than simply list all of the commonly useful PDB commands, we're going to instead debug a simple function. Our function – is_palindrome() – takes in an integer and determines if the digits of the integer are a palindrome or not. A palindrome is a sequence which is the same both forwards and backwards.

The first thing we'll do is create a new file, palindrome.py, with this code:

import unittest

def digits(x):
"""Convert an integer into a list of digits.

Args:
x: The number whose digits we want.

Returns: A list of the digits, in order, of ``x``.

>>> digits(4586378)
[4, 5, 8, 6, 3, 7, 8]
"""

digs = []
while x != 0:
div, mod = divmod(x, 10)
digs.append(mod)
x = mod
return digs

def is_palindrome(x):
"""Determine if an integer...
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