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1. Write a method in Python to read lines from a text file INDIA.TXT, to find and
display the occurrence of the word 'India'.

Ans:

def display():

f = open('INDIA.txt','r')

a = f.readlines() # list of strings ['INDIA IS MY COUNTRY.\n', 'I LOVE INDIA']

print(a)

c=0

for line in a:

print(line)

if 'INDIA' in line:

c=c+1

print('occurrence of the word INDIA: ',c)

f.close()

display()

2. Write a Python function which reads a text file “poem.txt”

and prints the number of vowels in each line of that file,

separately.

Ans:

def show():

f = open('poem.txt','r')
 a = f.read()

c=0

vowels ='aeiou'

for char in a:

if char in vowels:

c=c+1

print('no of the vowels: ',c)

show()

3. Write a method/function BIGLINES() in Python to read

lines from a text file CONTENT.TXT, and display those

lines, which are bigger than 20 characters.

Ans:

def BIGLINES():

f = open('CONTENT.txt','r')

a = f.readlines()

for line in a:

if len(line) > 20:

print(line)

BIGLINES()

4. Write a function COUNTTEXT( ), which reads a text file

Book.txt and displays all the words of the file whose length
is more than 3 or those which start with „ A‟ or „ a‟ . in the

form of a list. For example, if the Book.txt file contains

India is my country. They are studying.

then the output should be: [“India”, “country”, “They”,

“are”, “studying”]

Ans:

def COUNTTEXT():

f = open('counttext.txt','r')

words = f.read().split()

list =[]

for word in words:

if len(word) > 3 or word[0] =='A' or word[0]== 'a':

list.append(word)

print(list)

COUNTTEXT()

5. Write a Python program that writes the reverse of each line

in “input.txt” to another text file “output.txt”. Eg: if the

content of input.txt is:

The plates will still shift

and the clouds will still spew.

The content of “output.txt” should be:

.weps llits lliw sduolc eht dna

Ans:

f1 = open('input.txt','r')

f2 = open('output.txt','w')

lines = f1.readlines()

print(lines)

for line in lines:

#print(line)

reverse =''

for char in line: # The

reverse= char + reverse #ehT

print(reverse)

f2.write(reverse)

f2.write('\n')

f2.close()

f1.close()

6. Write a function named COUNT_CHAR() in python to count

and display number of times the arithmetic operators

(+,-,*,/) appears in the file “Math.txt” .

Example:

Solve the following:

2.(A-B)*(A+B)/D-(E/F)

3. A+B+C/D*(E/F)

The function COUNT_CHAR() must display the output as

Number of '+' sign is 4 Number of '-' sign is 2

Number of '*' sign is 3 Number of '/' sign is 5

Ans:

def COUNT_CHAR():

f = open('MATH.txt','r')

a,s,m,d = 0,0,0,0

w = f.read()

for letter in w:

if letter == '+':

a+=1 #a = a + 1

elif letter == '-':

s+=1

elif letter == '*':

m+=1

elif letter == '/':

d+=1

print('No of + sign = ',a)

print('No of - sign = ',s)

print('No of / sign = ',d)

COUNT_CHAR()

7. Write a function V_COUNT() to read each line from the text file and count number of lines
begins and ends with any vowel.

Ans:

def V_COUNT():

a = f.readlines()

print(a)

c=0

vowels = 'aeiou'

for i in a:

if i[-1] == '\n':

if i[0] in vowels and i[-2] in vowels:

c+=1

elif i[0] in vowels and i[-1] in vowels:

c+=1

print("no of vowels begins and end in a line= ",c)

f = open('a.txt','r')

V_COUNT()

8. Write a user-defined function named Count() that will read

the contents of text file named“Report.txt” and count the

number of lines which starts with either "I" or "M".

with "I" or "M".

Ans:

def Count():

a = f.readlines()

c=0

for i in a:

if i[0] == "I" or i[0] == "M":

c+=1

print("The no of lines starts with I or M =",c)

f = open('Report.txt','r')

Count()

9. Write a function/method DISPLAYWORDS( ) in python to

read lines from a text file STORY.TXT and display those

words, which are less than 4 characters.

Ans:

def DISPLAYWORDS():

a = f.read().split()

c=0

for i in a:

if len(i) > 4:

c+=1
 print('no of words less than 4 characters =',c)

f = open('STORY.txt','r')

DISPLAYWORDS()

(or)

def DISPLAYWORDS():

lines = f.readlines() #['It rained yesterday\n', 'yIt might rain today\n', 'I wish it rains tomorrow too\n
'I love Rain']

#print(lines)

c=0

for line in lines: #'It rained yesterday\n',

words = line.split()

print(words) # ['It', 'rained', 'yesterday']

for word in words:

if len(word) < 4:

c+=1

print('no of words less than 4 characters =',c)

f = open('STORY.txt','r')

DISPLAYWORDS()

10. Write a function stats( ) that accepts a filename and reports the file‟s longest line.

Ans:

def stats(f):

a =f.readlines()

maxi =len(a[0])
 for line in a:

if len(line) > maxi:

long_line = line

maxi = len(line)

print(long_line)

print(maxi)

f = open('long.txt','r')

stats(f)

11. Write a function countdigits() in Python, which should read each character of a text file
"marks.txt", count the number of digits and display the file content and the number of digits.

Example: If the "marks.txt" contents are as follows:

Harikaran:40,Atheeswaran:35,Dahrshini:30,Jahnavi:48

The output of the function should be:

('Total number of digits in the file :', 8)

Ans:

def countdigits():

f = open('marks.txt','r')

r = f.read()

c =0

for i in r:

if i.isdigit():

c += 1

print('Total number of digits in the file :', c)

12. Write a function in Python to count the number of lines in a text file 'STORY.TXT'which is
starting with an alphabet 'A'.

Ans:

def countno():

f = open('STORY.txt','r')

a = f.readlines()

c=0

for i in a:

if i[0] == "A":

c+=1

print("no of lines starting with A = ",c)

countno()

13. Write a method SHOWLINES() in Python to read lines from

text file TESTFILE.TXT„ and display the lines which do not

contain 'ke'.

Ans:

def SHOWLINES():

f = open('TESTFILE.txt','r')

a = f.readlines()

k = 'ke'

for i in a:

if k not in i:
 print(i)

SHOWLINES()

14. Write a function RainCount() in Python, which should read the content of a text file ―
TESTFILE.TXT ‖ and then count and display the count of occurrenceof word RAIN
(case_insensitive) in the file.

Example: If the file content is as follows:

It rained yesterday

It might rain today

I wish it rains tomorrow too

I love Rain

The RainCount() function should display the output as:

Rain – 2

Ans:

def RainCount():

f = open('TESTFILE.txt','r')

r = f.read().split()

c =0

for i in r:

if i=='rain' or i =='Rain':

c += 1

print('Rain –', c)

RainCount()

15. Define a function SHOWWORD () in python to read lines from a text file STORY.TXT, and
display those words, whose length is less than 5.

Ans:

def SHOWWORD():

f = open('STORY.txt','r')

a = f.read().split()

for i in a:

if len(i) < 5:

print(i)

SHOWWORD()

16. Write a user defined function in python that displays the

number of lines starting with 'H' in the filepara.txt

Ans:

def displayno():

f = open('filepara.txt','r')

a = f.readlines()

c=0

for i in a:

if i[0] == "H":

print(i)

c+=1

print("no of lines starting with H = ",c)

displayno()

17. Write a function in Python to print those words which

“STORY.txt”

Ans:

def Count():

f = open('STORY.txt','r')

r = f.read().split()

for i in r:

if 's' in i or 'S' in i:

print(i)

Count()

18. Write a function COUNTLINES( ) which reads a text file

STORY.TXT and then count and display the number of the

lines which starts and ends with same letter irrespective of

itscase.

Ans:

def COUNTLINES():

f = open('STORY.txt','r')

r = f.readlines()

c =0

for i in r:

a=i[0]

b=i[-2]
 if a == b :

c += 1

print('No of lines starts and ends with same letter ', c)

COUNTLINES()