Assignment 17 — conditional analysis

Due Saturday, October 8

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Program pigeonhole.py

• Produce a program that prompts the user for a single string and reports on its form. There should be no other output.

• If the input is empty, the program displays exactly string "empty" and nothing else. A string is empty, if it has length 0.

• If instead, the input is a single character, the program displays exactly string "character" and nothing else. A string is a single character, if it has length 1.

• Otherwise, the program displays exactly string "characters" and nothing else.

• Some possible program runs

Enter string: I

character

Enter string: You

characters

Enter string: Everyone in the world

characters

Enter string: <--- no text provided, not even a space

empty

• This problem seems like an excellent opportunity to use the Python if-elif-else construct.

 

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