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Python Lab Assignment 5

This document outlines a Python lab assignment focused on file reading and writing techniques. It includes examples for reading lines from a file, appending text, counting words and characters, writing to CSV, comparing files, and manipulating file content. Each section provides code snippets demonstrating the respective file operations.

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Python Lab Assignment 5

This document outlines a Python lab assignment focused on file reading and writing techniques. It includes examples for reading lines from a file, appending text, counting words and characters, writing to CSV, comparing files, and manipulating file content. Each section provides code snippets demonstrating the respective file operations.

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Python Lab Assignment 5

Topic: File Reading and Writing

1. Read and Print Each Line of a File

with open('example.txt', 'r') as file:

line = file.readline()

while line:

print(line.strip())

line = file.readline()

2. Append a Line to an Existing File

with open('example.txt', 'a') as file:

file.write('This is a new line.\n')

3. Read First 10 Characters, Use seek(5), and Read Next 5 Characters

with open('example.txt', 'r') as file:

print('First 10 characters:', file.read(10))

file.seek(5)

print('Next 5 characters from position 6:', file.read(5))

4. Count Words, Lines, and Characters in a File

with open('example.txt', 'r') as file:

content = file.read()

num_lines = len(content.split('\n'))

num_words = len(content.split())

num_chars = len(content)

print('Lines:', num_lines)

print('Words:', num_words)
print('Characters:', num_chars)

5. Append User Input to a File Until 'STOP' is Entered

with open('example.txt', 'a') as file:

while True:

user_input = input('Enter text (type STOP to end): ')

if user_input == 'STOP':

break

file.write(user_input + '\n')

6. Write a List of Dictionaries to a CSV File

import csv

students = [

{'Name': 'Alice', 'Age': 20, 'Grade': 'A'},

{'Name': 'Bob', 'Age': 22, 'Grade': 'B'},

{'Name': 'Charlie', 'Age': 21, 'Grade': 'A+'}

with open('students.csv', 'w', newline='') as file:

fieldnames = ['Name', 'Age', 'Grade']

writer = csv.DictWriter(file, fieldnames=fieldnames)

writer.writeheader()

writer.writerows(students)

7. Compare Two Files Line by Line and Report Differences

with open('file1.txt', 'r') as file1, open('file2.txt', 'r') as file2:

for i, (line1, line2) in enumerate(zip(file1, file2), start=1):


if line1 != line2:

print(f'Difference at line {i}:')

print(f'File1: {line1.strip()}')

print(f'File2: {line2.strip()}')

8. Write File Lines in Reverse Order to a New File

with open('example.txt', 'r') as file:

lines = file.readlines()

with open('reversed_example.txt', 'w') as new_file:

for line in reversed(lines):

new_file.write(line)

9. Replace All Occurrences of a Word in a File

word_to_replace = 'oldword'

replacement_word = 'newword'

with open('example.txt', 'r') as file:

content = file.read()

content = content.replace(word_to_replace, replacement_word)

with open('example.txt', 'w') as file:

file.write(content)

10. Count Occurrences of a Specific Word in a File

word_to_count = 'example'
with open('example.txt', 'r') as file:

content = file.read()

count = content.count(word_to_count)

print(f'The word "{word_to_count}" appears {count} times in the file.')

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