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Assignments/Assignment_10.2

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+Hello Fellows,
+
+Write a program to read through the mbox-short.txt and figure out the distribution by hour of the day for each of the messages. 
+You can pull the hour out from the 'From ' line by finding the time and then splitting the string a second time using a colon.
+
+From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan  5 09:14:16 2008
+
+Once you have accumulated the counts for each hour, print out the counts, sorted by hour as shown below.
+
+
+Begin to write the program with the following code below:
+name = raw_input("Enter file:")
+if len(name) < 1 : name = "mbox-short.txt"
+handle = open(name)
+
+
+Happy Coding,
+Tunisia

Assignments/Assignment_8.4

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+Hello Fellows!
+
+Open the file romeo.txt and read it line by line. For each line, split the line into a list of words using the split() method. 
+The program should build a list of words. 
+For each word on each line check to see if the word is already in the list and if not append it to the list. 
+When the program completes, sort and print the resulting words in alphabetical order.
+
+You can download the sample data at http://www.pythonlearn.com/code/romeo.txt
+
+
+Begin to write the program with the following code below:
+fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
+fh = open(fname)
+lst = list()
+for line in fh:
+print line.rstrip()
+
+
+Happy Coding!
+Tunisia

Assignments/Assignment_8.5

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+Hello Fellows!
+
+Open the file mbox-short.txt and read it line by line. When you find a line that starts with 'From ' like the following line:
+From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan  5 09:14:16 2008
+
+You will parse the From line using split() and print out the second word in the line (i.e. the entire address of the person 
+who sent the message). Then print out a count at the end.
+Hint: make sure not to include the lines that start with 'From:'.
+
+You can download the sample data at http://www.pythonlearn.com/code/mbox-short.txt
+
+
+Begin to write the program with the following code below:
+fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
+if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"
+
+fh = open(fname)
+count = 0
+
+print "There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word"
+
+
+Happy Coding!
+Tunisia

Assignments/Assignment_9.4

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+Hello Fellows!
+
+Write a program to read through the mbox-short.txt and figure out who has the sent the greatest number of mail messages. 
+The program looks for 'From ' lines and takes the second word of those lines as the person who sent the mail. 
+The program creates a Python dictionary that maps the sender's mail address to a count of the number of times they appear in the file. 
+After the dictionary is produced, the program reads through the dictionary using a maximum loop to find the most prolific committer.
+
+Begin to write the program with the following code below:
+name = raw_input("Enter file:")
+if len(name) < 1 : name = "mbox-short.txt"
+handle = open(name)
+
+
+
+Happy Coding,
+Tunisia