CS 1MD3 - Winter 2006 - Assignment #3

Generated for Student ID: 0465698

Due Date: Monday, February 27th

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The following exercises involve writing very short (but tricky) functions to manipulate data structures. One of them is a recursive function which may be written in only three lines, while the rest may be written in only one line each (and are not recursive). Function signatures (the "def functionName(x,y,z):" lines) are not counted when enumerating the number of lines. So in this context, a "one-line function" actually occupies two lines: the signature on the first line, and the body on the next line.

Note: Not all students get the same number of questions because some questions are more difficult than others. We have tried to make all the assignments of roughly equal difficulty.

Question 1:

Implement the sumList function (same as sum() for lists) as a recursive function--obviously
without using sum() itself.

Question 2:

A (binary) "symmetric relation," R, is a set of ordered pairs, (x,y), such that 
if (x,y) is in R, then so is (y,x).  For example, the relation
R1 = {(1,2), (3,4), (2,1), (5,5)} is not symmetric, while the relation
R2 = {(1,2), (3,4), (2,1), (5,5), (4,3)} is symmetric.
Write a one-line function which accepts a relation (a set of 2-element tuples), and
returns True if R is symmetric, and False if it is not.

Question 3:

The graph of a (mathematical) function is the set of all pairs (x,y) such that 
x is in the domain of f (i.e. the set of values over which f is defined), and y = f(x).
The range of a function is the set of all values it can attain (i.e. the set of all values
f(x) where x is in the domain of f).
Write a one-line Python function, ran, which accepts the graph of a mathematical function 
(i.e. a set of ordered pairs) and returns its range.

Question 4:

Write a one-line function called invertDictionary that accepts a dictionary and 
returns a copy of it with the keys and values interchanged.  For example, suppose
d1 = {1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c'}.
Then the command d2 = invertDictionary(d1), would produce:
d2 = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}.
You may assume that no two keys in the given dictionary map to the same value.