Python data structures: Assignment 10.2
Coursera: Python data structures Assignment 10.2 Week 6 10.2 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. Solution: name = input("Enter file:") if len(name) < 1 : name = "mbox-short.txt" handle = open(name) counts = dict() for line in handle : line = line.rstrip() if line == "": continue words = line.split() if words[0] != "From" : continue time = words[5].split(":") counts[time[0]] = counts.get(time[0], 0) + 1 list = list() for key,value in counts.items() : list.append((key,value)) list.sort() for hour,count in list :
