Problem scenario
You want to use bisect in Python. How do you do this?

Solution

# This program was adapted from code found
# https://docs.python.org/3/library/bisect.html

import bisect
def grade(score, breakpoints=[60, 70, 80, 90], grades=’FDCBA’):
i = bisect.bisect(breakpoints, score)
return grades[i]

x = [grade(score) for score in [71, 88, 94]]
print(x)

import bisect
def whether(temperature, breakpoints=[38, 70, 80, 100], descriptors=[”cold”, “cool”, “warm”, “hot”, “very hot”]):
i = bisect.bisect(breakpoints, …

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Problem scenario
You have a list called cool_list. You use the .sort method. But the list is not getting alphabetized. How do you sort the strings alphabetically in the list?

Solution
Remember to use .sort(). Those last parentheses “()” are necessary.

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