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Group these words by their length, in a dictionary where the key is the length and the value is the…
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Group these words by their length, in a dictionary where the key is the length and the value is the list of words: ["cat", "tree", "dog", "bird", "sun", "house"]. Show the groups from the shortest length to the longest.
The worked solution
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Plan. The key is len(word). The value is a list. If the key is new, make an empty list. Then append.
Check. The lengths are 3 for cat, dog and sun; 4 for tree and bird; 5 for house. The output is
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3 ['cat', 'dog', 'sun']
4 ['tree', 'bird']
5 ['house']The keys are numbers here, which is fine: a number is a fixed value and can be a key.
Answer: The program above.
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