How to iterate over each string in a list of strings and operate on it's elements

Question

Im new to python and i need some help with this.

TASK : given a list --> words = [\'aba\', \'xyz\', \'xgx\', \'dssd\', \'sdjh\']

i need to com

Answer 1

The following code outputs the number of words whose first and last letters are equal. Tested and verified using a python online compiler:

words = ['aba', 'xyz', 'xgx', 'dssd', 'sdjh']  
count = 0  
for i in words:  
     if i[0]==i[-1]:
        count = count + 1  
print(count)  

Output:

$python main.py
3

Answer 2

Try:

for word in words:
    if word[0] == word[-1]:
        c += 1
    print c

for word in words returns the items of words, not the index. If you need the index sometime, try using enumerate:

for idx, word in enumerate(words):
    print idx, word

would output

0, 'aba'
1, 'xyz'
etc.

The -1 in word[-1] above is Python's way of saying "the last element". word[-2] would give you the second last element, and so on.

You can also use a generator to achieve this.

c = sum(1 for word in words if word[0] == word[-1])