daily_sales = \

"""Edith Mcbride ;,;$1.21 ;,; white ;,;

09/15/17 ,Herbert Tran ;,; $7.29;,;

white&blue;,; 09/15/17 ,Paul Clarke ;,;$12.52

;,; white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 ,Lucille Caldwell

;,; $5.13 ;,; white ;,; 09/15/17,

Eduardo George ;,;$20.39;,; white&yellow

;,;09/15/17 , Danny Mclaughlin;,;$30.82;,;

purple ;,;09/15/17 ,Stacy Vargas;,; $1.85 ;,;

purple&yellow ;,;09/15/17, Shaun Brock;,;

$17.98;,;purple&yellow ;,; 09/15/17 ,

Erick Harper ;,;$17.41;,; blue ;,; 09/15/17,

Michelle Howell ;,;$28.59;,; blue;,; 09/15/17 ,

Carroll Boyd;,; $14.51;,; purple&blue ;,;

09/15/17 , Teresa Carter ;,; $19.64 ;,;

white;,;09/15/17 , Jacob Kennedy ;,; $11.40

;,; white&red ;,; 09/15/17, Craig Chambers;,;

$8.79 ;,; white&blue&red ;,;09/15/17 , Peggy Bell;,; $8.65 ;,;blue ;,; 09/15/17, Kenneth
Cunningham ;,; $10.53;,; green&blue ;,;

09/15/17 , Marvin Morgan;,; $16.49;,;

green&blue&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Marjorie Russell

;,; $6.55 ;,; green&blue&red;,; 09/15/17 ,

Israel Cummings;,; $11.86 ;,;black;,;

09/15/17, June Doyle ;,; $22.29 ;,;

black&yellow ;,;09/15/17 , Jaime Buchanan ;,;

$8.35;,; white&black&yellow ;,; 09/15/17,

Rhonda Farmer;,;$2.91 ;,; white&black&yellow

;,;09/15/17, Darren Mckenzie ;,;$22.94;,;green

;,;09/15/17,Rufus Malone;,;$4.70 ;,; green&yellow

;,; 09/15/17 ,Hubert Miles;,; $3.59

;,;green&yellow&blue;,; 09/15/17 , Joseph Bridges ;,;$5.66 ;,; green&yellow&purple&blue

;,; 09/15/17 , Sergio Murphy ;,;$17.51 ;,;

black ;,; 09/15/17 , Audrey Ferguson ;,;

$5.54;,;black&blue ;,;09/15/17 ,Edna Williams ;,;

$17.13;,; black&blue;,; 09/15/17, Randy Fleming;,; $21.13 ;,;black ;,;09/15/17 ,Elisa Hart;,; $0.35
;,; black&purple;,; 09/15/17 ,

Ernesto Hunt ;,; $13.91 ;,; black&purple ;,;

09/15/17, Shannon Chavez ;,;$19.26 ;,;

yellow;,; 09/15/17 , Sammy Cain;,; $5.45;,;

yellow&red ;,;09/15/17 , Steven Reeves ;,;$5.50

;,; yellow;,; 09/15/17, Ruben Jones ;,;

$14.56 ;,; yellow&blue;,;09/15/17 , Essie Hansen;,; $7.33 ;,; yellow&blue&red

;,; 09/15/17 , Rene Hardy ;,; $20.22 ;,;

black ;,; 09/15/17 , Lucy Snyder ;,; $8.67

;,;black&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Dallas Obrien ;,;

$8.31;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17, Stacey Payne

;,; $15.70 ;,; white&black&red ;,;09/15/17

, Tanya Cox ;,; $6.74 ;,;yellow ;,;

09/15/17 , Melody Moran ;,; $30.84

;,;yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 , Louise Becker ;,;

$12.31 ;,; green&yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 ,

Ryan Webster;,;$2.94 ;,; yellow ;,; 09/15/17

,Justin Blake ;,; $22.46 ;,;white&yellow ;,;

09/15/17, Beverly Baldwin ;,; $6.60;,;

white&yellow&black ;,;09/15/17 , Dale Brady

;,; $6.27 ;,; yellow ;,;09/15/17 ,Guadalupe Potter ;,;$21.12 ;,; yellow;,; 09/15/17 ,

Desiree Butler ;,;$2.10 ;,;white;,; 09/15/17

,Sonja Barnett ;,; $14.22 ;,;white&black;,;

09/15/17, Angelica Garza;,;$11.60;,;white&black

;,; 09/15/17 , Jamie Welch ;,; $25.27 ;,;

white&black&red ;,;09/15/17 , Rex Hudson

;,;$8.26;,; purple;,; 09/15/17 , Nadine Gibbs

;,; $30.80 ;,; purple&yellow ;,; 09/15/17 ,

Hannah Pratt;,; $22.61 ;,; purple&yellow

;,;09/15/17,Gayle Richards;,;$22.19 ;,;

green&purple&yellow ;,;09/15/17 ,Stanley Holland

;,; $7.47 ;,; red ;,; 09/15/17 , Anna Dean;,;$5.49 ;,; yellow&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,

Terrance Saunders ;,; $23.70 ;,;green&yellow&red

;,; 09/15/17 , Brandi Zimmerman ;,; $26.66 ;,;

red ;,;09/15/17 ,Guadalupe Freeman ;,; $25.95;,;

green&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Irving Patterson

;,;$19.55 ;,; green&white&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Karl Ross;,; $15.68;,; white ;,; 09/15/17 , Brandy
Cortez ;,;$23.57;,; white&red ;,;09/15/17,

Mamie Riley ;,;$29.32;,; purple;,;09/15/17 ,Mike Thornton ;,; $26.44 ;,; purple ;,; 09/15/17,

Jamie Vaughn ;,; $17.24;,;green ;,; 09/15/17 ,

Noah Day ;,; $8.49 ;,;green ;,;09/15/17

,Josephine Keller ;,;$13.10 ;,;green;,; 09/15/17 , Tracey Wolfe;,;$20.39 ;,; red ;,; 09/15/17 ,

Ignacio Parks;,;$14.70 ;,; white&red ;,;09/15/17

, Beatrice Newman ;,;$22.45 ;,;white&purple&red

;,; 09/15/17, Andre Norris ;,; $28.46 ;,;

red;,; 09/15/17 , Albert Lewis ;,; $23.89;,;

black&red;,; 09/15/17, Javier Bailey ;,;

$24.49 ;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17 , Everett Lyons ;,;$1.81;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,

Abraham Maxwell;,; $6.81 ;,;green;,; 09/15/17

, Traci Craig ;,;$0.65;,; green&yellow;,;

09/15/17 , Jeffrey Jenkins ;,;$26.45;,;

green&yellow&blue ;,; 09/15/17, Merle Wilson

;,; $7.69 ;,; purple;,; 09/15/17,Janis Franklin

;,;$8.74 ;,; purple&black ;,;09/15/17 ,

Leonard Guerrero ;,; $1.86 ;,;yellow

;,;09/15/17,Lana Sanchez;,;$14.75 ;,; yellow;,;

09/15/17 ,Donna Ball ;,; $28.10 ;,;

yellow&blue;,; 09/15/17 , Terrell Barber ;,;

$9.91 ;,; green ;,;09/15/17 ,Jody Flores;,;

$16.34 ;,; green ;,; 09/15/17, Daryl Herrera

;,;$27.57;,; white;,; 09/15/17 , Miguel Mcguire;,;$5.25;,; white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 ,

Rogelio Gonzalez;,; $9.51;,; white&black&blue

;,; 09/15/17 , Lora Hammond ;,;$20.56 ;,;

green;,; 09/15/17,Owen Ward;,; $21.64 ;,;

green&yellow;,;09/15/17,Malcolm Morales ;,;

$24.99 ;,; green&yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 ,

Eric Mcdaniel ;,;$29.70;,; green ;,; 09/15/17

,Madeline Estrada;,; $15.52;,;green;,; 09/15/17

, Leticia Manning;,;$15.70 ;,; green&purple;,;

09/15/17 , Mario Wallace ;,; $12.36 ;,;green ;,;

09/15/17,Lewis Glover;,; $13.66 ;,;

green&white;,;09/15/17, Gail Phelps ;,;$30.52

;,; green&white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 , Myrtle Morris

;,; $22.66 ;,; green&white&blue;,;09/15/17"""

#------------------------------------------------

# Start coding below!

Break up `daily_sales` in easy to understand lists `customers`, `sales`,

and `threads_sold`.

1.
First, take a minute to inspect the string daily_sales in the code editor.

How is each transaction stored? How is each piece of data within the
transaction stored?

Start thinking about how we can split up this string into its individual pieces
of data.
2.
It looks like each transaction is separated from the next transaction by a ,,
and then each piece of data within a transaction is separated by the
artifact ;,;.

If we want to split up daily_sales into a list of individual transactions, we are

going to want to split by ,, but first, we need to replace the artifact ;,; to
something without a comma, so we don’t split any transactions themselves.

Replace all the instances of ;,; in daily_sales with some other character and
save the result to daily_sales_replaced.
Stuck? Get a hint
3.
Now we can split the string into a list of each individual transaction.

Split daily_sales_replaced around commas and save it to a new

list daily_transactions.
Stuck? Get a hint
4.
Print daily_transactions.

How does it look?

5.
Our next step is to split each individual transaction into a list of its data
points.

First, define an empty list daily_transactions_split

6.
Now, iterate through daily_transactions (remember, this is a list of strings
currently), and for each transaction, split the string around whatever
character you replaced the ;,; artifacts with in Step 2.

Append each of these split strings (which are lists now) to our new
list daily_transactions_split.
Stuck? Get a hint
7.
Print daily_transactions_split.

How’s it looking?
8.
It looks like each data item has inconsistent whitespace around it. First,
define an empty list transactions_clean.

Now, Iterate through daily_transactions_split and for each transaction iterate

through the different data points and strip off any whitespace.

Add each of these cleaned up transactions to the new list transactions_clean.

Stuck? Get a hint
9.
Print transactions_clean.

If you performed the last step correctly, you shouldn’t see any unnecessary
whitespace.
10.
Create three empty lists. customers, sales, and thread_sold. We are going to
collect the individual data points for each transaction in these lists.
11.
Now, iterate through transactions_clean and for each transaction:

1. Append the customers name to customers.

2. Append the amount of the sale to sales.
3. Append the threads sold to thread_sold.

12.
Print customers, sales, and thread_sold to make sure each list is what you are
expected.
Determine the total value of the days sales.

13.
Now we want to know how much Thread Shed made in a day.

First, define a variable called total_sales and set it equal to 0.

14.
Now, consider the list sales. It is a list of strings that we want to sum. In
order for us to sum these values, we will have to remove the $, and set
them equal to floats.

Iterate through sales and for each item, strip off the $, set it equal to a float,
and add it to total_sales
15.
Print total sales.

How much did we make today?

How much thread of any specific color was sold?

16.
Finally, we want to determine how many of each color thread we sold
today. Let’s start with a single color, and then we’ll generalize it.

First, print out thread_sold and inspect it.

17.
We see that thread_sold is a list of strings, some are single colors and some
are multiple colors separated by the & character.

The end product we want here is a list that contains an item for each color
thread sold, so no strings that have multiple colors in them.

First, define an empty list thread_sold_split.

18.
Next, iterate through thread_sold. For each item, check if it is a single color
or multiple colors. If it is a single color, append that color
to thread_sold_split.

If it is multiple colors, first split the string around the & character and then
add each color indivudally to thread_sold_split.
19.
Great, now we have a list thread_sold_split that contains an entry with the
color of every thread sold today.

Define a function called color_countthat takes one argument, color. The

function should iterate through thread_sold_split and count the number of
times the item is equal to argument, color. Then, it should return this count.
20.
Test your new function by running color_count('white').

Your function should return 28.

21.
Define a list called colors that stores all of the colored threads that Thread
Shed offers:
py colors = ['red','yellow','green','white','black','blue','purple']
22.
Now, using the list colors, the string method .format(), and the
function color_count, iterate through thread_sold_split and print a sentence
that says how many threads of each color were sold today.
Stuck? Get a hint

For example, if we wanted to replace all instances of "a" in the

string my_stringwith "b", we can run py my_string_replaced =
my_string.replace("a","b")

If you are having trouble thinking of a character to replace ;,; with, try using ;.

Remember, to split a string around a certain delimiter, use the code py new_list
= my_string.split(delimiter)

An easy way to perform a task on every item in a list and add it to a new list is
by following this format:

new_list = []
for item in list:
new_list.append(task(item))
Think about how you can use code of this form to accomplish the given task.

This will require two for loops. One to iterate through the outer
list, daily_transactions_split and one to iterate through each of the transactions
and perform the .strip() on the data points.
22 Thread Shed sold 28 threads of white thread today.