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Sometimes data comes in as a structured format that you have to
break down and turn into records so you
can process them. CSV, or
comma-separated values, is a common standard for doing this.
Construct a program that reads in the following data file:

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Ling,Mai,55900

Johnson,Jim,56500
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Jones,Aaron,46000

Jones,Chris,34500

Swift,Geoffrey,14200

Xiong,Fong,65000

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Zarnecki,Sabrina,51500

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Process the records and display the results formatted as a
table, evenly spaced, as shown in the example link
output.

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Last First Salary

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Xiong Fong $65,000

Johnson Jim $56,500

Ling Mai $55,900

Zarnecki Sabrina $51,500

Jones Aaron $46,000

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Jones Chris $34,500

Swift Geoffrey $14,200

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### CONSTRAINTS

- Write your own code to parse the data. Don’t use a CSV
parser.

- Use spaces to align the columns.

- Make each column one space longer than the longest

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value in the column.

- **CHALLENGE 1** Format the salary as currency with dollar signs

and commas.
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- **CHALLENGE 2** Sort the results by salary from highest to
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def sortBySalary(line):   #used to sort the records by

salary

   return int(line[2])   #returns the salary as

a integer

#stores each columns width

col1_width=0

col2_width=0

col3_width=0

data=[]   #stores each record

try:

   fp=open("input.data","r")   #opens the

file

   for line in fp:   #reads each line

      
line=line.replace("\n","")   #removes the new line
       line=line.split(",")  
#seperates the line at comma

       data.append(line)   #adds

the line to data

      

       #calculates each columns maximum

width

      
if(col1_width<len(line[0])):

          
col1_width=len(line[0])

      
if(col2_width<len(line[1])):

          
col2_width=len(line[1])

      
if(col3_width<len(line[2])):

          
col3_width=len(line[2])

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   fp.close()   #closes the file

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   data.sort(key=sortBySalary)   #sorts the
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   #header along with the appended spaces

   #in each column number of spaces is column width minus

length of string to be printed

   header_col1="Last"+"
"*(col1_width-4+1)  
   header_col2="First"+" "*(col2_width-5+1)

   header_col3="Salary"+" "*(col3_width-6+1)

  
print("{}{}{}".format(header_col1,header_col2,header_col3))  
#printing the header

  
print("-"*(col1_width+col2_width+col3_width+4))  
#printing the lines

   for line in data:   #accessing each line

in data

       #in each column number of spaces is

column width minus length of string to be printed
       col1=line[0]+"
"*(col1_width-len(line[0])+1)

       col2=line[1]+"
"*(col2_width-len(line[1])+1)

       #formating the number using

commas

       col3="{:,}".format(int(line[2]))+"
"*(col3_width-len(line[2])+1)  

      
print("{}{}${}".format(col1,col2,col3))   #printing each
record

except:   #if any error while handling file

   print("File Error")

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how about getting the highest wages to start with. Reverse of this output?

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