Why would you dereference an iterator using the operator *?

How does the --> work in dereferencing a pointer?

Count word dominators def count_word_dominators(words): If you already solved the earlier count_dominators problem, you might notice that even though the problem was originally stated for lists of integers, the logic of domination did not depend on this fact in any way. As long as the individual elements can be compared with each other for order, the Pythonic spirit of duck typing allows the very same count_dominators function to handle a list of strings just as smoothly as it would handle a list of integers! For example, the function call count_dominators(['dog','emu','cat','bee']) would return 3, since 'emu', 'cat'and 'bee' dominate all words coming after them in the list when using the lexicographic order comparison. If your count_dominators function does not already pass this hurdle, try to rewrite it to contain no baked-in assumptions about elements being specifically integers. However, things become more interesting if we define domination between words of equal length with a…