1. Write a program to create a text file named data.txt and write five lines of text into it.
In [1]: file = open('data.txt', 'w')
for i in range(5):
file.write("This is line " + str(i+1) + "\n")
file.close()
2. Write a Python program to open a file sample.txt and display its contents on the
screen.
In [ ]: file = open('sample.txt', 'r')
content = file.read()
print(content)
file.close()
3. Write a program to count the total number of characters, words, and lines in a text
file.
In [2]: file = open('data.txt', 'r')
line_count, word_count, char_count = 0,0,0
for line in file:
line_count += 1
words = line.split()
word_count += len(words)
char_count += len(line)
file.close()
print("Lines : ", line_count)
print("Words : ", word_count)
print("Characters: ", char_count)
Lines : 5
Words : 20
Characters: 75
4. Write a program to read a file and display only those lines which contain the word
“Python”.
In [ ]: file = open('sample.txt', 'r')
for line in file:
if 'Python' in line:
print(line.strip())
file.close()
5. Write a program to write a list of names into a file, each name on a new line.
In [6]: names = ['Subham', 'Dutta', 'Navya', 'Akshay', 'Srijeet', 'Soumybrata', 'Ayush', 'Adhrit']
file = open('names.txt', 'w')
for name in names:
file.write(name + "\n")
file.close()
6. Write a program that reads an existing file and copies all even-numbered lines into a
new file called even_lines.txt.
In [7]: file = open('data.txt', 'r')
lines = file.readlines()
file.close()
new_file = open('even_lines.txt','w')
for i in range(len(lines)):
if (i+1)%2 == 0:
new_file.write(lines[i])
new_file.close()
7. Write a Python program to find the longest word in a file.
In [9]: file = open('data.txt', 'r')
longest = ''
for line in file:
words = line.split()
for word in words:
if len(word) > len(longest):
longest = word
file.close()
print('Longest word: ', longest)
Longest word: Thisee
8. Write a program that reads a file and displays the lines in reverse order (last line first,
first line last).
In [10]: file = open('data.txt', 'r')
lines = file.readlines()
file.close()
for i in range(len(lines)-1, -1, -1):
print(lines[i].strip())
This is line 5
This is line 4
This is line 3
This is line 2
Thisee is line 1
9. Write a program that appends user input to an existing file until the user types STOP.
In [11]: file = open('data.txt', 'a')
while True:
text = input("Enter text (type STOP to end): ")
if text == 'STOP':
break
file.write(text + '\n')
file.close()
10. Write a program to remove all punctuation marks from a text file and write the clean
text into a new file.
In [ ]: file = open('data.txt', 'r')
text = file.read()
file.close()
clean_text = ''
for char in text:
if char not in '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~':
clean_text = clean_text + char
file = open('clean_data.txt', 'w')
file.write(clean_text)
file.close()
In [13]: import string
file = open('data.txt', 'r')
text = file.read()
file.close()
clean_text = ''
for char in text:
if char not in string.punctuation:
clean_text = clean_text + char
file = open('clean_data.txt', 'w')
file.write(clean_text)
file.close()
11. Write a Python script that reads a text file and prints the frequency of each character
(excluding spaces and newlines).
In [14]: file = open('data.txt', 'r')
text = file.read()
file.close()
feq = {}
for char in text:
if char != ' ' and char != '\n':
if char in feq:
feq[char] += 1
else:
feq[char] = 1
for char in feq:
print(char, ' : ', feq[char])
T : 5
h : 6
i : 16
s : 11
e : 10
l : 5
n : 6
1 : 1
# : 5
$ : 1
2 : 1
3 : 1
4 : 1
5 : 1
P : 2
y : 1
t : 1
o : 5
! : 2
r : 2
g : 1
a : 1
m : 2
@ : 3
G : 1
d : 1
N : 1
c : 1
% : 3
A : 1
w : 1
~ : 4
12. Write a Python program that reads from input.txt and writes all lines containing the
word “error” into errors.txt.
In [ ]: infile = open('input.txt', 'r')
outfile = open('errors.txt', 'w')
for line in infile:
if 'error' in line.lower():
outfile.write(line)
infline.close()
outfile.close()
13. Write a program that merges the content of two text files into a third file.
In [ ]: f1 = open('file1.txt', 'r')
f2 = open('file2.txt', 'r')
f3 = open('file3.txt', 'w')
data1 = f1.read()
data2 = f2.read()
f3.write(data1 + '\n' + data2)
f1.close()
f2.close()
f3.close()
14. Write a program that checks whether a given word exists in a file or not
In [17]: word = input("Enter the word to search: ")
found = False
file = open('data.txt', 'r')
for line in file:
if word in line:
found = True
break
file.close()
if found:
print('Word found')
else:
print('Word not found')
Word not found
15. Create a program that reads an entire file and capitalizes the first letter of every
sentence. Save the output to a new file.
In [22]: file = open('data.txt', 'r')
text = file.read()
file.close()
new_text = ''
capitalize = True
for char in text:
if capitalize and char.isalpha():
new_text += char.upper()
capitalize = False
else:
new_text += char
if char == '.' or char == '!' or char == '?':
capitalize = True
file = open('capitalized.txt', 'w')
file.write(new_text)
file.close()
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