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Before session 6

Files

Watch the videos. Next two videos (part 1 and part 2) show how to open data files on your computer and read throught the files using Python.

Slides
Text-book: chapter 7 - files

Test

Go to Moodle and take the sixth test on the video lecture.

Homework

The deadline for homework is Monday. Still, it would be good to start with homework already before the session.

Example 1. Shoe size

The file foot.txt contains data about foot lengths. The following program reads the data from the file, calculates a suitable shoe size for each foot length and prints the result out. The program prints Invalid input if the foot length cannot be converted into a number for some reason, and proceeds with the next line of the file.

def shoe_size(length):
    return 1.5 * (length + 1.5)

ffile = open("foot.txt")

for foot in ffile:
    try:
        f = float(foot)
        s = shoe_size(f)
        print("Foot length:", f, "Suitable shoe size is", round(s))
    except:
        print("Invalid input")

ffile.close()

Example 2. Upper case

The following program asks for the file name, then the program reads the file and prints the contents of the file (line by line) in the upper case. The program works nicely with all the files which exist and do not exist.

fname = input("Please enter the file name: ")

try:
    ffile = open(fname)
except:
    print("File cannot be opened:", fname)
else:
    for line in ffile:
        print(line.strip().upper())
    ffile.close()

Homework

Do not forget to submit the logfiles into Moodle.