Binary File and Text File Programs for the Practical Exam-2023

Set 1

(a) Write a menu driven program to perform the following operations on a binary file “emp.dat”
has structure [EID, EName, Designation, Salary].
i. Write a user defined function CreateEmp() to input data for a record and create a file
“emp.dat”
ii. Write a function display() to display the details of all employees, whose salary is more
than 30000.
iii. Display the file content.
iv. Exit

Ans.:

import pickle
def CreateEmp():
n=int(input("Enter number of employees: "))
f1=open("emp.dat",'wb')
for i in range(n):
eid=input("Enter E. Id: ")
ename=input("Enter Name: ")
designation=input("Enter Designation: ")
salary=int(input("Enter Salary: "))
rec=[eid,ename,designation,salary]
pickle.dump(rec,f1)
f1.close()

# Part 2
import pickle
def display_sal_above_30k():
f2=open("emp.dat","rb")
found=0
try:
while True:
rec=pickle.load(f2)
if rec[3]>30000:
print("E. Id:",rec[0])
print("Name:",rec[1])

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 print("Post:",rec[2])
print("Salary:",rec[3])
found=1
except:
f2.close()
if found==0:
print("No record found !")
#Part 3
def display():
print("Contents in a Binary file ")
f=open("emp.dat","rb")
try:
print("ID\t Name\t Post \t Salary")
while True:
R=pickle.load(f)
print(R[0],'\t',R[1],'\t',R[2],'\t',R[3])
#print(R)

except:
f.close()

def main():
while True:
print("-------MAIN MENU-----")
print("1. Create File ")
print("2. Display File")
print("3. Display Employees where salary is more than 30000")
print("4. Exit")
print("---------------------")
choice=int(input("Enter your choice (1..4) : "))
if choice==1:
CreateEmp()
elif choice==2:
display()
elif choice==3:
display_sal_above_30k()
elif choice==4:
exit()
else:
print("Invalid Choice ! ")

main()

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 Set 2

Write a menu driven program to perform the following operations on a text file.
i. Write a user defined function to create a text file DATA1.TXT and display the file
content.
ii. Write a function to count the number of lines in a text file DATA1.TXT which starts and
ends with “T” and “e” respectively.
iii. Display the file.
iv. Exit

def create_file1():
fil=open("data1.txt","w+")
n=int(input("Enter number of lines : "))
for i in range(n):
data= input("Enter data to save in the text file: ")
fil.write(data)
fil.write('\n')
fil.close()

def count_Lines_starting_with_T_and_Ending_with_e():
f1=open('data1.txt','r')
lines=f1.readlines()
count=0
i=1
print("Displaying the lines Starting with T and ending with e : ")
for line in lines:
i+=1
if line[0]=='T' and line[-2]=='e':
print(line)
count+=1
print("Number of Lines starting with 'T' and ending with 'e' is ", count)

#To display data from a text file

def display_file1():
fil=open("data1.txt","r")
str = fil.read()
print(str)
fil.close()

def main():

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 while True:
print("-------MAIN MENU-----")
print("1. Create File ")
print("2. Display File")
print("3. Counting and Displaying Lines starting with 'T' and ending with 'e' ")
print("4.Exit")

print("---------------------")
choice=int(input("Enter your choice (1..5) : "))
if choice==1:
create_file1()
elif choice==2:
display_file1()
elif choice==3:
count_Lines_starting_with_T_and_Ending_with_e()
elif choice==4:
exit()
else:
print("Invalid Choice ! ")

main()

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 Set 3

Write a menu driven program to perform the following operations on a binary file “emp.dat”
has structure [EID, EName, Designation, Salary].
i. Write a user defined function to add more records of employees in the existing file
“emp.dat”
ii. Write a function Show_Salesman() to display the details of all employees, whose
designation is “Salesman”.
iii. Display the file content.
iv. Exit

import pickle
def CreateEmp():
n=int(input("Enter number of employees: "))
f1=open("emp.dat",'ab')
for i in range(n):
eid=input("Enter E. Id: ")
ename=input("Enter Name: ")
designation=input("Enter Designation: ")
salary=int(input("Enter Salary: "))
rec=[eid,ename,designation,salary]
pickle.dump(rec,f1)
f1.close()

# Part 2
import pickle

def Show_Salesmen():
f2=open("emp.dat","rb")
print("Displaying salesmen details: ")
found=0
try:
while True:
rec=pickle.load(f2)
if rec[2]=="Salesman":
print("ID: ",rec[0])
print("Name: ",rec[1])

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 print("Post: ",rec[2])
print("Salary: ", rec[3])
found=1

except:
f2.close()
if found==0:
print("No record found !")

def display():
print("Contents in a Binary file ")
f=open("emp.dat","rb")
try:
print("ID\t Name\t Post \t Salary")
while True:
R=pickle.load(f)
print(R[0],'\t',R[1],'\t',R[2],'\t',R[3])
#print(R)

except:
f.close()

def main():
while True:
print("-------MAIN MENU-----")
print("1. Create File ")
print("2. Display File")
print("3. Display Employees who are working as Salesman")
print("4. Exit")
print("---------------------")
choice=int(input("Enter your choice (1..4) : "))
if choice==1:
CreateEmp()
elif choice==2:
display()
elif choice==3:
Show_Salesmen()
elif choice==4:
exit()
else:

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 print("Invalid Choice ! ")
main()

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 Set 4

Write a menu driven program to perform the following operations on a text file “poem.txt”.
i. Write a user defined function to create a file “Poem.txt”
ii. Write a function to display the text file content.
iii. Writ e a function WCount() to count the number of words present in the text file
“Poem.txt”.
If the file contains:
I have a tree, a Green, green tree to shade me from the Sun.
Then the output should be,
Count of words = 14
iv. Exit

# UDF to create a text file and add data

def create_file1():
fil=open("poem.txt","w+")
n=int(input("Enter number of lines : "))
for i in range(n):
data= input("Enter data to save in the text file: ")
fil.write(data)
fil.write('\n')
fil.close()

# UDF To display data from a text file

def display_file1():
fil=open("poem.txt","r")
str = fil.read()
print(str)
fil.close()

# UDF To count words

def wcount():
f=open("poem.txt","r")
s=f.read()
c=0
word=s.split()
for i in word:

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 c+=1
print("Count of words:",c)

def main():
while True:
print("-------MAIN MENU-----")
print("1. Create File ")
print("2. Display File")
print("3. Count and Display the number of words in the file")
print("4. Exit")
print("---------------------")
choice=int(input("Enter your choice (1..5) : "))
if choice==1:
create_file1()
elif choice==2:
display_file1()
elif choice==3:
wcount()
elif choice==4:
exit()
else:
print("Invalid Choice ! ")

main()

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 Set 5

Write a menu driven program to perform the following operations on a binary file “Book.dat”
has the structure {BookNo, Book_Name, Author, Price].
i. Write a user defined function CreateFile() to input data for a record and add to
“Book.dat”.
ii. Write a function CountRect() which accepts the author’s name as parameter and count
and return the number of books written by the author. Also display the book details
written by the same author.
iii. Display the file.
iv. Exit

import pickle
def CreateBook():
n=int(input("Enter number of Books: "))
f1=open("Book.dat","wb")
for i in range(n):
BookNo=input("Enter Book No: ")
Book_Name=input("Enter Book Name: ")
Author=input("Enter Author: ")
Price=int(input("Enter Price: "))
rec=[BookNo, Book_Name, Author, Price]
pickle.dump(rec,f1)
f1.close()

def CountRec(Author):
f2=open("Book.dat","rb")
print("Displaying Books by Author : ",Author)
found=0
count=0
try:
while True:
R=pickle.load(f2)
if R[2]==Author:
print("Book No: ",R[0])
print("Book Name: ", R[1])
print("Author ", R[2])
print("Price ", R[3])
count+=1
found=1
except:
f2.close()

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 if found==0:
print("No record found !")
else:
print("There are : ", count," books by Author ", Author)

def display():
print("Contents in a Binary file ")
f2=open("Book.dat","rb")
try:
print("BNo \t Name \t\t\t Author \t Price")
while True:
R=pickle.load(f2)
print(R[0],'\t',R[1],'\t',R[2],'\t',R[3])

except:
f2.close()

def main():
while True:
print("-------MAIN MENU-----")
print("1. Create File ")
print("2. Display File")
print("3. Counting & Displaying Books by Author")
print("4. Exit")
print("---------------------")
choice=int(input("Enter your choice (1..4) : "))
if choice==1:
CreateBook()
elif choice==2:
display()
#display2()
elif choice==3:
Author=input("Enter name Author name for counting books : ")
CountRec(Author)
elif choice==4:
exit()
else:
print("Invalid Choice ! ")
main()

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 Set 8

Write a menu driven program to perform the following operations on a binary file “STORE.DAT”
has structure [ITEM_ID, ITEM_NAME, QTY, PRICE].
i. Write a user defined function CREATE_REC() to input data and add to file “STORE.DAT”
ii. Write a function DISPLAY_REC() to display the details of items which have the quantity
more than 35 from the file “STORE.DAT”.
iii. Display the file content.
iv. Exit

# Part i)
import pickle
def create_rec():
file=open("STORE.DAT",'wb')
n=int(input("Enter the number of Items : "))
for i in range(n):
ITEM_ID=int(input("Enter Item ID :"))
ITEM_NAME=input("Enter Item name:")
QTY=int(input("Enter QTY:"))
PRICE=int(input("Enter PRICE:"))
rec=[ITEM_ID, ITEM_NAME, QTY,PRICE]
pickle.dump(rec,file)
print("Record Saved !")
file.close()

# Part ii)
import pickle
def Display_Rec() :
file=open("STORE.DAT",'rb')
count=0
print("Displaying the details of items \
having quantity is more than 35 ")
try:
while True:
R=pickle.load(file)
#print(R)
count+=1
if R[2]>35:
print("Item_id: ",R[0])

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 print("Item_name: ",R[1])
print("Quantuty: ",R[2])
print("Price: ",R[3])
except:
file.close()
return count

def display() :
print("Contents in a Binary file ")
f=open("STORE.DAT",'rb')
try:
print("ID\t Name\t Qty \t Price")
while True:
R=pickle.load(f)
print(R[0],'\t',R[1],'\t',R[2],'\t',R[3])
#print(R)

except Exception:
f.close()

def main():
while True:
print("-------MAIN MENU-----")
print("1. Create File ")
print("2. Display File")
print("3. Display Items where quantity is more than 35")
print("4. Exit")
print("---------------------")
choice=int(input("Enter your choice (1..4) : "))
if choice==1:
create_rec()
elif choice==2:
display()
elif choice==3:
print("The number of items : ",Display_Rec())
elif choice==4:
exit()
else:
print("Invalid Choice ! ")
main()

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 Set 10

Write a menu driven program to perform the following operations on a text file.
i. Write a user defined function to create a text file LINE.TXT.
ii. Write a function to display the file content.
iii. Write a function PMCount() to count the number of times the letter P and M(including
the small case of ‘p’ and ‘m’) occurs in the file content.
If the file contains:
I am student.
I like programming.
Then the output should be:
Count of P/p: 1
Count of M/m: 3
iv. Exit

# program to create a text file and add data

def create_file():
fil=open("LINE.txt","w+")
n=int(input("Enter number of lines: "))
for i in range(n):
data= input("Enter data to save in the text file: ")
fil.write(data)
fil.write('\n')
fil.close()
#To display data from a text file
def display_file():
fil=open("LINE.txt","r")
str = fil.read()
print(str)
fil.close()
def PMCount():
f=open("LINE.txt","r")
s=f.read()
cp=0
cm=0
for i in s:
if i in('p','P'):
cp+=1
if i in ('m','M'):
cm+=1
print('Count of P/p: ',cp)

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 print('Count of M/m:', cm)

def wcount_more_than_4_char():
f=open("LINE.txt","r")
s=f.read()
c=0
word=s.split()
num=len(word)
print("Total Number of words=",num)
print("Displaying words having more than 4 characters: ")
for i in word:
if len(i)>4:
print(i)
c+=1
print("Number of words having more than 4 characters:",c)

def main():
while True:
print("-------MAIN MENU-----")
print("1. Create File ")
print("2. Display File")
print("3. Count two characters P and M in the file")
print("4. Exit")
print("---------------------")
choice=int(input("Enter your choice (1..4) : "))
if choice==1:
create_file()
elif choice==2:
display_file()
elif choice==3:
PMCount()
elif choice==4:
exit()
else:
print("Invalid Choice ! ")

main()

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