Lab 4 (File handling, Lists)

1. (File handling) The rainfall (in mm) for each day in a particular month is captured in a
file, rainfall.dat. Write a program to read the rainfall for each day, and display a
summary report as follows:
Rainfall Summary
Average rainfall 5.65mm
No of days with no rain 3 days
Highest rainfall recorded 20.6mm

Refer to the Appendix of this document for the content of rainfall.dat which you can
use to create the input file.

2. (File handling) The name, weight and height of some customers in a gym are stored
in a comma separated file, customer.dat

a. Write a program that reads each line of customer.dat and as each line is read, it
computes the body mass index (bmi) report as follows:
Name Weight Height BMI
John 50 1.4 25.51
Peter 60 1.7 20.76
…
Joe 45 1.45 21.40

𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
BMI is computed using the formula: 𝑏𝑚𝑖 = ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 2

Refer to the Appendix of this document for the content of customer.dat which you can
use to create the input file.

b. Modify the above program to store the report in an output file, bmi.dat

3. (List) Write a program to record the statistics of 100 throws of a dice.

Use an initial list as follows to record the occurrences of each value of the dice:
diceCount = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

The element at index 0 of the list will not be used. When the dice value is 1, add 1 to
index 1 of the list etc. After 100 throws of the dice, display a summary of the
occurrences of the dice values as follows:
Dice Occurrence
1 16
2 14
3 15
4 17
5 18
6 20
Total 100

4. (String, tuple, list) A check digit is usually appended to a number in order to detect
errors arising when the number is transcribed manually.

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 The check digit for the NRIC No. is the official reference which is determined as
follows:
For example : NRIC No.(with official reference) = S7928964G

Step 1:
Multiply each digit by the following weights.

NRIC No. : 7 9 2 8 9 6 4
Weights : 2 7 6 5 4 3 2
Products: 14 63 12 40 36 18 8
Make use of a tuple for the weights:
weight = (2, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2)

Step 2:
Sum the products of each digit x weight.
Sum : 14 + 63 + 12 + 40 + 36 + 18 + 8 = 191

Step 3:
Find the remainder when the sum is divided by 11.
Sum/11: 17 remainder 4

Step 4:
Take 11 – remainder to get the check digit.
Check digit : 11 – 4 = 7

Step 5:
Look up the following table to get the official reference.

Official Reference : G

Conversion: A B C D E F G H I Z J
Table 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Write a program that reads in a nric as a string and checks whether the reference is
correct. Make use of a tuple for step 5, instead of using if..elif statement.

5. (tuple, list) A test consists of 10 MCQ questions. Each question has 4 choices: a, b,
c, d. The solution to each question is stored in a tuple as follows:
( ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘b’, ’a’, ’d’, ’c’, ’b’, ’a’, ’b’, ’c’ )

to indicate that the answer to question 1 is a, to question 2 is b, etc.

Write a program that allows a user to take the quiz. The user is prompted for his
answers to the 10 MCQ questions. Assume input will be one of the 4 valid choices is
entered: a, b, c, d. Store the answers in another collection.

After all the questions have been answered, the program displays if each of the
questions is answered correctly, and if not, the program displays the correct answer.
A summary of the number of correct answers is also displayed.

An example run is shown here:

Q1: a
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 Q2: b
Q3: c
Q4: a
Q5: d
Q6: c
Q7: b
Q8: a
Q9: d
Q10: c
Q1: a correct
Q2: b correct
Q3: c incorrect, answer is b
Q4: a correct
Q5: d correct
Q6: c correct
Q7: b correct
Q8: a correct
Q9: b correct
Q10: c correct
Total 9 out of 10 correct

6. (Multiple lists) A program is required to record and display the results of a swimming
competition. The swimming pool has 5 lanes. The swimmer name for each lane is
first recorded. After the race, the timings for the swimmers are captured. The results
for the race is then displayed.

a. Write a function inputSwimmers() that prompts for 5 swimmer names and returns the
names in a list.

An example of the input session is as follows:

Enter lane 1 swimmer: James
Enter lane 2 swimmer: Joseph
…
Enter lane 5 swimmer: Ian
Test the function.

b. Write another function inputTiming(swimmers) that has the list of swimmers names.
The function creates an empty list, and records the timing for each of the swimmers.
The timings list is returned. An example of the input session is as follows:
Enter timing for James: 47.15
Enter timing for Joseph: 46.91
….
Enter timing for Ian: 48.01

c. Write another function printResults(swimmers, timings) that has the name and
timing lists as parameters. The function prints a summary of the results as follows:
James 47.15s
Joseph 46.91s
…
Ian 48.01s
Fastest is 46.91s

Assume all the timings are unique. Write a main function to test out all the parts
in this question.
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d. Modify the function in part c) that prints the summary in sorted order of the timing.
Therefore, the summary may look like this:
Joseph 46.91s
James 47.15s
…
Ian 48.01s

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Appendix

Data files for Q1 and Q2

rainfall.dat
0.2
7.8
0.4
3.4
0.4
3.8
12
5.4
1.6
0
0.8
12.4
2.4
2
4.6
0.8
18.4
7.4
20.6
4
13.2
2
4
0
4.8
14.4
9.6
0
5.6
7.6

customers.dat
John,50,1.4
Peter,60,1.7
Amy,40,1.3
Nathan,70, 1.7
Joe,45,1.45

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