University of Arizona, Department of Computer Science

CSc 120: Words beginning with

Expected Behavior

Write a function words_beginning_with(wordlist, head) that behaves as follows. The argument wordlist is a list of strings, while the argument head is a string. words_beginning_with(wordlist, head) returns a list consisting of those strings in wordlist that begin with head. If none of the strings in wordlist begin with head, it returns the empty list.

The order of list elements in the list returned by the function should match the order of their occurrence in wordlist.

Examples

In the examples below, wordlist is the list

['evolve', 'absolve', 'evil', 'absent', 'evidence', 'lake', 'ladder', 'list']
  1. words_beginning_with(wordlist, 'ev')
    Return value: ['evolve', 'evil', 'evidence']

  2. words_beginning_with(wordlist, 'evi')
    Return value: ['evil', 'evidence']

  3. words_beginning_with(wordlist, 'e')
    Return value: ['evolve', 'evil', 'evidence']

  4. words_beginning_with(wordlist, 'la')
    Return value: ['lake', 'ladder']

  5. words_beginning_with(wordlist, 'ing')
    Return value: []