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The document contains multiple Python functions designed to perform various text file operations, such as counting lines that start with specific letters, displaying words based on character length, and counting occurrences of specific characters or words. Each function is defined with its respective logic for reading from a text file named 'story.txt' or other specified files. The functions cover a range of tasks including vowel counting, filtering words, and displaying results based on specific criteria.

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The document contains multiple Python functions designed to perform various text file operations, such as counting lines that start with specific letters, displaying words based on character length, and counting occurrences of specific characters or words. Each function is defined with its respective logic for reading from a text file named 'story.txt' or other specified files. The functions cover a range of tasks including vowel counting, filtering words, and displaying results based on specific criteria.

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TEXT FILE QUESTION AND ANSWERS

Write a function in python to count the number of lines in a text file "story.txt"
which is starting with an alphabet"A.
def count_line_a(n):
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=f.readlines()
for x in a :
if x[0]=="A" :
print(x)
n=n+1
print("Count: ",n)
c=0
count_line_a(c)

Write a method/function Displaywords() in python read lines from a text file


story.txt and display those words, which are less than 4 characters.

def displaywords() :
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=f.read().split()
for x in a:
if len(x)<4 :
print(x)
displaywords()

Question
Write a method COUNTLINES() in Python to read lines from text file
TESTFILE.TXT‟ and display the lines which are not starting with any vowel

def countlines():
c=0
a=["a","e","i","o","u"]
f=open("story.txt","r")
tl=f.readlines()
for l in tl:
if l[0].lower() not in a:
print(l)
c=c+1
print("Count of lines which doesnot start with vowels: ",c)
countlines()

Write a function ETCount() in Python, which should read each character of a text
file “TESTFILE.TXT” and then count and display the count of occurrence of
alphabets E and T individually (including small cases e and t too).

def ETcount():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=list(f.read())
ec=0
et=0
for x in a:
if x.lower() == "e":
ec=ec+1
if x.lower() =="t" :
et=et+1
print("Count of E or e: ",ec)
print("count of letter t or T: ",et)
ETcount()

write a function in python to read a text file,Alpha.txt and display those lines
which begin with t he word you

def disp_you():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=f.readlines()
for x in a:
y=x.split()
#print(y)
if y[0]=="You" :
print(x)
disp_you()

Write a function ,vowelcount() in python that counts and displays the number of
vowels in the text file named poem.txt

def Vowelcount():
a=["a","e","i","o","u"]
f=open("story.txt","r")
b=list(f.read())
c=0
for x in b:
if x in a:
c=c+1
print("Count of vowel: ",c)
Vowelcount()

Write a Python functiongovWeb() that displays all the words containing gov.in
from a text file “URLs.txt”

def functiongovWeb():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=(f.read()).split()
for x in a:
if "gov.in" in x:
print(x)
functiongovWeb()

write a Python function atleast5() that finds and displays all the words having at
least 5 characters from a text file “Story.txt”.

def atleast5() :
f=open("story.txt","r")
s=(f.read()).split()
for x in s:
if len(x)>=5 :
print(x)
atleast5()

Write a Python function count_vowels() that reads text from a file named
"input.txt" and counts the number of vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the file. The function
should return the vowel count.

def count_vowels():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=["a","e","i","o","u"]
b=list(f.read())
c=0
for x in b:
if x in a:
c=c+1
print("count of vowels: ",c)
count_vowels()

Write a Python function longest_word() that reads text from a file "words.txt"
and returns the longest word in the file.

def longest_word():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=(f.read()).split()
l=0
lw=0
for x in a:
if len(x)>l:
l=len(x)
lw=x
print("the longest word is: ",lw,"with the length of :",l)
longest_word()

Write a Python function that extracts and displays all the words containing a
hyphen ("-") from a text file "HyphenatedWords.txt", which has a three letter word
before hypen and four letter word after hypen.
For example : "for-them" is such a word.

def contain_hyphen():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=(f.read()).split()
for x in a:
y=x.split("-")
if len(y)==2 :
if len(y[0])==3 and len(y[1])==4 :
print(x)
contain_hyphen()

Write a Python function that count the lines start with the word “the” in a file
"xyz.txt" and display it at the end.

def line_the():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=f.readlines()
c=0
for x in a:
y=x.split()
if y[0]=="the" :
print(x)
c=c+1
print("count of line: ",c)
line_the()

count of words beginning with capital letter Write a function that counts no of
words beginning with a capital letter from the text file RatanJi.txt

def Count_caps ():


f=open("story.txt","r")
a=(f.read()).split()
c=0
for x in a:
if x[0].isupper() :
c=c+1
print(x)
print("No of words starting with capital letter: ",c)
Count_caps()

Write a function that displays the line number along with no of words in it from
the file Quotes.txt

def print_len():
f=open("story.txt","r")
a=f.readlines()
print("line Number \t\t No of words")
for x in range(len(a)):
y=a[x].split()
print("Line ",x+1,": \t\t ",len(y))
print_len()

Write a method SHOWLINES() in Python to read lines from text file 'EXAMCS.txt'
and display the lines which do not contain 'ke'.

def showlines():
f=open("exams.txt","r")
a=f.readlines()
for x in a:
if "ke" not in x:
print(x)
showlines()

Write a function RainCount() in Python, which should read the content of a text
file "RAIN.txt" and then count and display the count of occurrence of word rain
(case-insensitive) in the file.
def Raincount():
f=open("rain.txt","r")
a=(f.read()).split()
c=0
for x in a:
if x.lower()=="rain" :
c=c+1
print("count: ",c)
Raincount()

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