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Next palindrome

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Next palindrome is simple if you keep it on paper. Sara uses it for Next palindrome on Sara's board in a campus project.

Keep Next palindrome small. Sara should finish Next palindrome on Sara's board in a few lines, not a 40-line dump.

Skip Next palindrome and copy-pasting Next palindrome without a dry-run shows up in a campus project.

Sara ships Next palindrome in a campus project. That is the use case worth saying.

Next palindrome trap — copy-pasting Next palindrome without a dry-run. Sara loses marks for that every viva.

After Next palindrome, Sara should still remember copy-pasting Next palindrome without a dry-run.

One breath for Next palindrome, then Next palindrome on Sara's board, then copy-pasting Next palindrome without a dry-run. Sit down.

Exam tip

Board: Next palindrome on Sara's board. Dry-run Next palindrome. Name the trap: copy-pasting Next palindrome without a dry-run.

# Next palindrome
data = [4, 1, 3]
print("start", data)
if data[0] > data[1]:
    data[0], data[1] = data[1], data[0]
print("after one step", data)

Next palindrome: dry-run [4, 1, 3]. Say the list after one step.

DefNext palindrome — Sara uses it for Next palindrome on Sara's board in a campus project.
RuleNext palindrome → one Next palindrome step Sara can write from memory.
RememberNext palindrome + time vs memory (a campus project).
UseNext palindrome in a campus project (Next palindrome on Sara's board).
TrapNext palindrome — copy-pasting Next palindrome without a dry-run.
ExNext palindrome → Next palindrome on Sara's board.