[Edu-sig] Easter Egg Hunt

[kirby urner]

Here's a kind of little puzzle you can use with your students
to motivate their understanding of nested collections.

Given 'hunt' what subscripts will get you the egg?

>>> hunt = [({"easter":[1,2,{(3,4):"egg","chocolate":[(1,'bunny')]}]},())]

Answer:

>>> hunt[0][0]["easter"][2][(3,4)]
'egg'

Variations on that theme.  Not as hard as it looks, if you let them
drill down using some trial and error:

>>> hunt[0][0]
{'easter': [1, 2, {(3, 4): 'egg', 'chocolate': [(1, 'bunny')]}]}
>>> hunt[0][0]["easter"]
[1, 2, {(3, 4): 'egg', 'chocolate': [(1, 'bunny')]}]
>>> hunt[0][0]["easter"][2]
{(3, 4): 'egg', 'chocolate': [(1, 'bunny')]}
>>> hunt[0][0]["easter"][2][(3,4)]
'egg'

Kirby