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Lesson 10 covers file processing, focusing on reading from and writing to text files using Python. It includes exercises that guide users to create, read, and manipulate text files, such as counting lines and words. The lesson emphasizes practical applications of file handling in programming.

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session_10_file_processing

Lesson 10 covers file processing, focusing on reading from and writing to text files using Python. It includes exercises that guide users to create, read, and manipulate text files, such as counting lines and words. The lesson emphasizes practical applications of file handling in programming.

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Lesson 10: file processing

• Reading from a text file


• Writing to a text file
• Exercise and Solution (demo)

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Reading From a Text File
• So far, we have seen one forms of input to our code
• Using the input() function to directly ask for user input

• A more powerful technique is to read from text files

• You can upload a file to Google Colab to be read by Python from the
sidebar

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Reading From a Text File
• We can read the following text file using the syntax below

Resources

You can replace file with


any temporary variable name.
A common choice is simply f

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Reading From a Text File
• We may want to read a text file into a list with one element per line
• There are a few ways to do this. Arguably the easiest is to read the file
as one and the split at each newline character

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Writing to Text Files
• We can write to a file using the .write() method
• To do this we must add new lines using ‘\n’
• When we open the file we must specify the we are using write mode or
append mode

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Exercise 1
• Write a program that accepts name of five students and save it to a text
file named student_names.txt

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Exercise 1 Solution
• Write a program that accepts name of five students and save it to a text
file named student_names.txt

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Exercise 2
• Now, read the student_names.txt file and display student names line by
line

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Exercise 2 Solution
• Now, read the student_names.txt file and display student names line by
line

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Exercise 3
• Now, read and display total number of lines in the student_names.txt file

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Exercise 3 Solution
• Now, read and display total number of lines in the student_names.txt file

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Exercise 4
• Write a python program that read a text file about_ethiopia.txt and count
total number of words in the file.

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Exercise 4 Solution
• Write a python program that read a text file about_ethiopia.txt and count
total number of words in the file.

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Exercise 5
• Write a python program that read a text file about_ethiopia.txt and count
unique number of words in the file.

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Exercise 5 Solution
• Write a python program that read a text file about_ethiopia.txt and count
unique number of words in the file.

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Exercise 6
• Write a python program that read a text file about_ethiopia.txt and
convert all letters to capital letters.

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Exercise 6 Solution
• Write a python program that read a text file about_ethiopia.txt and
convert all letters to capital letters.

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If you have any questions, write it on
a comment section of this video

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