Module 13 Assignments

Short Project 11

Due date: Wednesday, November 25, 2026 at 9pm

Programming Problems

Due date: Wednesday, November 25, 2026 at 9pm

Programming Problem 25

Write a Python function that does the following:

  1. Its name is differences
  2. It takes two sets as arguments: set_1 and set_2
  3. It calculates and returns the number of elements that are different (not in common) between the two parameter sets
  4. It returns an integer with the number of different elements

Test cases:

print( differences({1, 2, 3}, {2, 3, 4, 5}) ) # 3
print( differences({'john', 'mark', 'paul'}, {'john', 'mark'}) ) # 1

Name the program differences.py. Make sure that gradescope gives you the points for passing the test case.

Programming Problem 26

Write a Python function that does the following:

  1. Its name is has_duplicate
  2. It takes a single list as argument
  3. It returns True if the list contains any duplicate values, False if all values are unique

Test cases:

print( has_duplicate([]) ) # False
print( has_duplicate([1, 2, 3, 1]) ) # True
print( has_duplicate([1, "a", "b", 4, 5]) ) # False
print( has_duplicate([1, "a", "a", 2, 3, 4]) ) # True

Name the program detect_duplicates.py. Make sure that gradescope gives you the points for passing the test case.