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The elements of a tuple can be set to 0 recursively as follows:

• If the tuple has a length of zero, nothing should be done to it.
• Otherwise, set the first element of the tuple to 0, and then append it to the rest of the tuple.

Write a function named clearthat accepts one argument, a tuple of any length, and returns a tuple of the same length with every element set to 0.

Answer 1

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#Define the

#function clearthat().

def clearthat(in_tup):

    #If the length of

    #the current tuple is

    #zero then return the

    #tuple without changing it.

    if len(in_tup) == 0:

        return in_tup

   

    #Otherwise, insert a zero

   #at the first index and

    #recursively call the function

    #with the rest of the tuple.

    else:

        return (0,) + clearthat(in_tup[1:])

Below is the code to test the working of the function clearthat().

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#Define the

#function clearthat().

def clearthat(in_tup):

    #If the length of

    #the current tuple is

    #zero then return the

    #tuple without changing it.

    if len(in_tup) == 0:

        return in_tup

   

    #Otherwise, insert a zero

   #at the first index and

    #recursively call the function

    #with the rest of the tuple.

    else:

        return (0,) + clearthat(in_tup[1:])

#Define the

#main() function.

def main():

    #Call the function

    #clearthat() and display

    #the result.

    print("The result of calling the function is:",clearthat((1, 2,3 ,4, 5, 6)))

#Call the

#main() function.

main()