Understanding - Advanced, exercise 29

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The variable my_g_name contains the string with your given name in lower case (e.g. "john"), and my_f_name contains the string with your family name in lower case (e.g. "doe"). What is the value returned by calling the function sc as shown as follows: rin(my_g_name, my_f_name, 0).

def rin(g_name, f_name, idx):
    result = []

    if len(g_name) > 0:
        if g_name[0] in f_name:
            result.append(idx)
        
        idx = idx + 1
        result.extend(rin(g_name[1:], f_name, idx))

    return result 

Hints

The function rin is an recursive recursive function that reduces the characters of the given name at each recursive call.

Additional material

The runnable Python file is available online. You can run it executing the command python exercise_29.py in a shell, and then following the instructions on screen to specify the intended input.