my_list = ["blue", "red", "green"]

#1- Using sort or srted directly or with specifc keys
my_list.sort() #sorts alphabetically or in an ascending order for numeric data 
my_list = sorted(my_list, key=len) #sorts the list based on the length of the strings from shortest to longest. 
# You can use reverse=True to flip the order

#2- Using locale and functools 
import locale
from functools import cmp_to_key
my_list = sorted(my_list, key=cmp_to_key(locale.strcoll))

filename = "data.txt"
with open(filename, "r") as file:
    file_contents = file.readlines()
    file_contents = [line.strip() for line in file_contents]

print("File contents:")
for line in file_contents:
    print(line)

#question1.py
def rose(n) :
  if n==0 : 
    yield []
  else :
    for k in range(0,n) :    
      for l in rose(k) :
        for r in rose(n-1-k) :      
            yield [l]+[r]+[r]
            
def start(n) :
  for x in rose(n) : 
      print(x) #basically I am printing x for each rose(n) file


print("starting program: \n")
start(2) # here is where I call the start function

import itertools

def compute_permutations(string):
    # Generate all permutations of the string
    permutations = itertools.permutations(string)

    # Convert each permutation tuple to a string
    permutations = [''.join(permutation) for permutation in permutations]

    return permutations

# Prompt the user for a string
string = input("Enter a string: ")

# Compute permutations
permutations = compute_permutations(string)

# Display the permutations
print("Permutations:")
for permutation in permutations:
    print(permutation)

# Function to multiply two matrices
def multiply_matrices(matrix1, matrix2):
    # Check if the matrices can be multiplied
    if len(matrix1[0]) != len(matrix2):
        print("Error: The number of columns in the first matrix must be equal to the number of rows in the second matrix.")
        return None

    # Create the result matrix filled with zeros
    result = [[0 for _ in range(len(matrix2[0]))] for _ in range(len(matrix1))]

    # Perform matrix multiplication
    for i in range(len(matrix1)):
        for j in range(len(matrix2[0])):
            for k in range(len(matrix2)):
                result[i][j] += matrix1[i][k] * matrix2[k][j]

    return result

# Example matrices
matrix1 = [[1, 2, 3],
           [4, 5, 6],
           [7, 8, 9]]

matrix2 = [[10, 11],
           [12, 13],
           [14, 15]]

# Multiply the matrices
result_matrix = multiply_matrices(matrix1, matrix2)

# Display the result
if result_matrix is not None:
    print("Result:")
    for row in result_matrix:
        print(row)

import math

def factorial(n):
    print(math.factorial(n))
    return (math.factorial(n))
    
factorial(5)
factorial(10)
factorial(15)