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Python has a behavior that is not universal among programming languages, and if you have experience with, say Java, you might find this surprising. Let’s walk through what’s happening. Why does this ...

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Copyright © William D. Young. All rights reserved. In homework 8, you built a collection of functions to manipulate strings. In this assignment, you'll be doing ...