The program does the following:

1. Pick a language that is not English and look up how to say a few common phrases, such as "Hello", "Goodbye", etc
2. Creates a dictionary with these common phrases from the languages selected as the key and their English translation as the values.
3. Display a "Welcome" message to the user describing the programmer's purpose.
4. Display a list of the phrases from the selected language to the user. Hints: Use the ".keys()" method of the dictionary class.
5. Ask the user to type in a phrase to translate.
6. Display to the user the phrase they selected and what its English translation is.
7. The program should look like this:

Working with Strings

Basic String Operations

All standard sequence operations work with strings

• Indexing
• Slicing
• Multiplication
• Membership
• Length
• Minimum
• Maximum

However...

• Strings are immutable
• All item or slice assignments are illegal

You can not assign a value to a part of a string. You can "Reassign" a new string to a variable, however.

Conversion Specifiers

%s parts are "conversion specifiers. Use format to display values. Conversion specifies where to insert values. "s" means values should be formatted as strings. If they aren't strings, Python uses the _str_ function to convert them to strings. To include a percent sign in a format string, use %%

Float Formatting Specifier

3 decimal positions of precision.

String Formatting Long Version

String Methods

• Python.org documentation has a complete list of string methods
• The following slides are a sample of methods available.

String Find Method

If the string is not found, it returns -1

Providing Start and End index

The first number is inclusive. Last is exclusive.

Other Methods

• rfind
• index
• rindex
• count
• startswith
• endswith

Join

Can not join string to int.

Lower

Replace

Split

If no parameters are set default is any whitespace character(space, tab, etc). Don't forget space!

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