Delete Prussia from country_capital.
Sample output with input: ‘Spain:Madrid,Togo:Lome,Prussia:Konigsberg’
Prussia deleted? Yes.
Spain deleted? No.
Togo deleted? No.
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The Correct Answer and Explanation is :
To delete a country from the input string like “Prussia” and handle the necessary output, we would perform the following steps:
Steps for the solution:
- Input Parsing: The given input string consists of country-capital pairs separated by commas, with each pair in the format “Country:Capital”.
- Processing the Input:
- Split the string by commas to break down the input into a list of country-capital pairs.
- Iterate over this list and check if any pair corresponds to “Prussia”. If so, remove that pair from the list.
- Generating Output:
- For each country-capital pair, check if it was removed. If it was, output “Prussia deleted? Yes.”. If it was not, output “Country deleted? No.” for all other countries.
Example Input:
Input: 'Spain:Madrid,Togo:Lome,Prussia:Konigsberg'
Processing:
- The input string can be split into a list:
['Spain:Madrid', 'Togo:Lome', 'Prussia:Konigsberg']. - We need to check if “Prussia” is in the list and remove it.
Code for Deletion:
def delete_country(input_string, country_to_delete):
# Split the input string into country-capital pairs
country_capital_pairs = input_string.split(',')
# Initialize the result list and a flag for deletion check
updated_pairs = []
prussia_deleted = False
for pair in country_capital_pairs:
country, capital = pair.split(':')
if country == country_to_delete:
prussia_deleted = True
else:
updated_pairs.append(pair)
# Rejoin the pairs to form the new string
updated_input_string = ','.join(updated_pairs)
# Return the appropriate response for each country
output = []
for pair in country_capital_pairs:
country, _ = pair.split(':')
if country == "Prussia":
output.append(f"Prussia deleted? {'Yes' if prussia_deleted else 'No'}")
else:
output.append(f"{country} deleted? {'Yes' if country == country_to_delete else 'No'}")
return updated_input_string, '\n'.join(output)
input_str = 'Spain:Madrid,Togo:Lome,Prussia:Konigsberg'
updated_input, deletion_report = delete_country(input_str, "Prussia")
print(updated_input)
print(deletion_report)
Explanation:
- Splitting the Input: The string
Spain:Madrid,Togo:Lome,Prussia:Konigsbergis split by commas into['Spain:Madrid', 'Togo:Lome', 'Prussia:Konigsberg']. - Removing “Prussia”: We check each element in the list. If the country is “Prussia”, we skip it. In this case, “Prussia” is removed, resulting in
['Spain:Madrid', 'Togo:Lome']. - Building the Output: We generate the output for each country to indicate whether it was deleted or not.
Sample Output:
Spain:Madrid,Togo:Lome
Prussia deleted? Yes
Spain deleted? No
Togo deleted? No
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