new_contents: def break_words(stuff):
          """This function will break up words for us."""
          words = stuff.split(' ')
          return words
  
  def sort_words(words):
          """Sorts the words."""
          return sorted(words)
  
  def print_first_word(words):
          """Prints the first word after popping it off."""
          word = words.pop(0)
          print word
  
  def print_last_word(words):
          """Prints the last word after popping it off."""
          word = words.pop(-1)
          print word
  
  def sort_sentence(sentence):
          """Takes in a full sentence and returns the sorted words."""
          words = break_words(sentence)
          return sort_words(words)
  
  def print_first_and_last(sentence):
          """Prints the first and last words of the sentence."""
          words = break_words(sentence)
          print_first_word(words)
          print_last_word(words)
  
  def print_first_and_last_sorted(sentence):
          """Sorts the words then prints the first and last one."""
          words = sort_sentence(sentence)
          print_first_word(words)
          print_last_word(words)
  
  print "Let's practice everything."
  print 'You\'d need to know \'bout escapes with \\ that do \n newlines and \t tabs.'
  
  poem = """
  \tThe lovely world
  with logic so firmly planted
  cannot discern \n the needs of love
  nor comprehend passion from intuition
  and requires an explantion
  \n\t\twhere there is none.
  """
  
  
  print "--------------"
  print poem
  print "--------------"
  
  five = 10 - 2 + 3 - 5
  print "This should be five: %s" % five
  
  def secret_formula(start):
          jelly_beans = start * 500
          jars = jelly_beans / 1000
          crates = jars / 100
          return jelly_beans, jars, crates
  
  start_point = 10000
  beans, jars, crates = secret_formula(start_point)
  
  print "With a starting point of: %d" % start_point
  print "We'd have %d beans, %d jars, and %d crates." % (beans, jars, crates)
  
  start_point = start_point / 10
  
  print "We can also do that this way:"
  print "We'd have %d beans, %d jars, and %d crates." % secret_formula(start_point)
  
  sentence = "All good things come to those who wait."
  words = break_words(sentence)
  sorted_words = sort_words(words)
  
  print_first_word(words)
  print_last_word(words)
  print_first_word(sorted_words)
  print_last_word(sorted_words)
  sorted_words = sort_sentence(sentence)
  print sorted_words
  print_first_and_last(sentence)
  print_first_and_last_sorted(sentence)
  
  
subject: Add work for Exercise 26: The Midterm.