ex38.py

# This script adds things to a list until it is the required length

ten_things = "Apples Oranges Crows Telephone Light Sugar"

print "Wait, there are not 10 things in that list. Let's fix that."

stuff = ten_things.split(' ')
more_stuff = ["Day", "Night", "Song", "Puppy", "Corn", "Banana", "Girl", "Boy"]

while len(stuff) != 10:
    next_one = more_stuff.pop()
    print "Adding: ", next_one
    stuff.append(next_one)
    print "There are %d items now." % len(stuff)

print "There we go: ", stuff

print "Let's do some things with stuff."

print stuff[1]
print stuff[-1]  # whoa! fancy
print stuff.pop()
print stuff
print ' '.join(stuff)  # whaaaaaaat? cool!
print ' # '.join(stuff[3:5])  # super stellar!