Python Programming Practice Workbook

Core Fundamentals: Strings, Slicing, Loops, Conditions & Len Function

Workbook Guidelines:
• Focus on writing clean, readable code with appropriate variable names.
• All problems are designed to test structural execution combining logical loops and text manipulations.
• Try to solve these without using advanced built-in string methods like .replace() or .reverse() to
maximize learning value.

Section 1: Basic & Intermediate Challenges

Question 1: The Domain Extractor

Write a program that takes an email address string as input. Using standard indexing or the len()
function, split the string to extract and print only the username (everything before '@') and the domain
name (everything after '@').

Concepts: Strings, Slicing, Len, Conditions

Input: "student2026@[Link]"
Output:
Username: student2026
Domain: [Link]

Question 2: Dynamic Palindrome Verification

Create a script that prompts the user for a word. The script must check if the word is a palindrome
(reads the same forward and backward) using string slicing. Additionally, if the string length is odd, print
the exact middle character; otherwise, print a message stating the length is even.

Concepts: Strings, Slicing, Len, Conditions

Input: "radar"
Output:
Is Palindrome: True
Middle Character: d

Python Foundations Challenge Page 1 of 3

Write a program that iterates through a given sentence using a loop. Construct a new string where all
vowels (a, e, i, o, u) are replaced with an asterisk (*), but only if the vowel appears at an even index
position in the string. Keep all other characters unchanged.

Concepts: Strings, Loops, Conditions, Len

Input: "python programming"

Question 4: Alternate Character Fabricator

Given a string input, utilize string slicing steps to generate two new strings: one containing all characters
at odd indices and another containing characters at even indices. Compare their lengths and display
which slice generated a longer string.

Concepts: Strings, Slicing, Len, Conditions

Input: "CodeChallenge"
Output:
Even Slice: CdCalleng
Odd Slice: oehlne
Result: Even slice is longer

Section 2: Advanced Construct Challenges

Question 5: Secure Password Truncator & Validator

Design a script that takes a password string. First, verify if the length of the password is at least 8
characters long. If it is valid, use slicing to obscure it by taking only the first 3 characters and appending
"..." followed by the total length of the original password. If it is less than 8 characters, flag it as unsafe.

Concepts: Strings, Slicing, Len, Conditions

Input: "SuperSecret123"
Output: "Sup...14"

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Accept a sentence from the user. Using a loop that counts backwards (from the last index down to 0
determined by len()), build a completely reversed version of the sentence. However, if the word "stop"
appears anywhere inside the sentence, break out of the loop immediately.

Concepts: Strings, Loops, Len, Conditions

Input: "we start now"

Question 7: Balanced Boundary Verification

Write a program that accepts a word and inspects its boundaries. Use slicing to extract a substring of
the first 3 characters and another substring of the last 3 characters. Utilize conditional statements to
check if these two sub-segments are identical. Print the outcome along with the total character count.

Concepts: Strings, Slicing, Len, Conditions

Input: "testmaniatest"
Output: "Match Found! Total length: 13"

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