There are 5 little program below which work with plain text files. You can download these little programs, or you can copy and paste these into the IDLE editor.
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Write a program which creates a file containing 10000 numbers, then write a program which reads that file then prints out the sum of the numbers.
Modify the program to create 10000 numbers between 1 and 100, then find the sum of these.
Download:p9a.py # p9a.py : create text file of random numbers import random f = open('numbers.txt', 'w') for i in range(10000): n = random.randint(1,10) f.write( str(n) + "\n") f.close()
Download:p9b.py # p9b.py : add up the integers in a text file g = open('numbers.txt',errors='ignore') sum = 0 while True: n = g.readline() if n == '': break sum = sum + int(n) print("The sum is", sum) g.close()
Download the file: pop_county_state.csv
Find the population of Carlton County, MN by year.
Q: Find the population of Hennepin County, MN in 2019.
Download:p9c.py # p9c.py : find Carlton County population by year, and 2020 g = open('pop_county_state.csv',errors='ignore') while True: line = g.readline() if line == '': break if "Carlton County, MN" in line: line = line.replace('"','') field = line.split(',') print(field[5],':', field[6]) if field[5] == "2020": print("In year 2020, Carlton County has ",field[6]," residents.\n") g.close()
Download the file: city_lat_lon.txt
Find the lat/lon of Duluth,MN
Find the lat/lon of Minneapolis,MN
Download:p9d.py # p9d.py : find City lat/lon g = open('city_lat_lon.txt',errors='ignore') while True: line = g.readline() if line == '': break if "Duluth,MN" in line: code,lat,lon,name = line.split() print("The 3 letter code for ", name," is ", code,"\n") print("lat/lon=",lat,"/",lon,"\n") g.close()
Download the file: oz.txt
Count the occurences of the word "the" in the book.
Count how many times Dorothy and Toto occur in the book
Download:p9e.py # p9e.py : count a word in a text word = "the" g = open('oz.txt',errors='ignore') s = g.read() s = s.lower() print(word," occurs this many times:", s.count(word)) g.close()