bites 89 - Playing with list and dict(Completed)

Author: [email protected]

89/states.py

@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ def get_state_abbrev(state_name, us_state_abbrev=us_state_abbrev):
        'Illinois' returns 'IL'.
        If the state is not in the dict, return 'N/A' which we stored
        in the NOT_FOUND constant (takeaway: dicts are great for lookups)"""
-    pass
+    return us_state_abbrev.get(state_name, "N/A")
 
 
 def get_longest_state(data):
     """Receives data, which can be the us_state_abbrev dict or the states
        list (see above). It returns the longest state measured by the length
        of the string"""
-    pass
+    return sorted(data, key=lambda x: len(x))[-1]
 
 
 def combine_state_names_and_abbreviations(us_state_abbrev=us_state_abbrev,
@@ -62,4 +62,6 @@ def combine_state_names_and_abbreviations(us_state_abbrev=us_state_abbrev,
        has both sorted, so:
        ['AK', 'AL', 'AZ', ..., 'South Dakota', 'Tennessee', 'Texas', ...]
        (see also test_combine_state_names_and_abbreviations)"""
-    pass
+    first10statesfromdict = list(sorted(us_state_abbrev.values()))[0:10]
+    last10statesfromlist = sorted(states)[:-11:-1]
+    return sorted(last10statesfromlist+first10statesfromdict)