Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The following functions are all supposed to count how many times a certain base (represented as a character variable in Python) appears in a dna sequence (represented as a string variable in Python):

  1. def count1(dna, base):
  2. i = 0
  3. for c in dna:
  4. if c == base:
  5. i += 1
  6. return i
  7. def count2(dna, base):
  8. i = 0
  9. for j in range(len(dna)):
  10. if dna[j] == base:
  11. i += 1
  12. return i
  13. def count3(dna, base):
  14. match = [c == base for c in dna]
  15. return sum(match)
  16. def count4(dna, base):
  17. return dna.count(base)
  18. def count5(dna, base):
  19. return len([i for i in range(len(dna)) if dna[i] == base])
  20. def count6(dna,base):
  21. return sum(c == base for c in dna)

Which of the correct functions defined in the above exercise is the fastest? Hint. You will need to generate a very large string to test them on, and the function clock() from the time module to time each function.

  1. count2
  2. count3
  3. count5
  4. count4
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Which of the correct functions defined in the above exercise is the fastest? Hint. You will need to generate a very large string to test them on, and the function clock() from the time module to time each function.

  1. count2
  2. count3
  3. count5
  4. count4
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Which of the correct functions defined in the above exercise is the fastest? Hint. You will need to generate a very large string to test them on, and the function clock() from the time module to time each function.

  1. count2
  2. count3
  3. count5
  4. count4
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