It is time to go find some Data to mess with!

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1 Files & Lists 4

2 Software What Next? It is time to go find some Data to mess with! Input and Output Devices Central Processing Unit if x < 3: print Secondary Memory Files R Us Main Memory From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: Return-Path: <postmaster@collab.sakaiproject.org> Date: Sat, 5 Jan :12: To: source@collab.sakaiproject. orgfrom: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.zasubject: [sakai] svn commit: r content/branches/details: org/viewsvn/?view=rev&rev=

3 File Processing A text file can be thought of as a sequence of lines From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: Return-Path: <postmaster@collab.sakaiproject.org> Date: Sat, 5 Jan :12: To: source@collab.sakaiproject.org From: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Subject: [sakai] svn commit: r content/branches/ Details: A file on the Web: 6

4 Opening a File Before we can read the contents of the file, we must tell Python which file we are going to work with and what we will be doing with the file This is done with the open() function open() returns a file handle - a variable used to perform operations on the file Similar to File -> Open in a Word Processor 7

5 Using open() handle = open(filename, mode) fhand = open('mbox.txt', 'r') > returns a handle use to manipulate the file > filename is a string > mode is optional and should be 'r' if we are planning to read the file and 'w' if we are going to write to the file 8

6 What is a Handle? >>> fhand = open('mbox.txt') >>> print fhand <open file 'mbox.txt', mode 'r' at 0x b0> 9

7 When Files are Missing >>> fhand = open('stuff.txt') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>ioerror: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'stuff.txt' 10

8 But What if It Is Opened for Writing? >>> open( non-existent.txt, w ) No problem! 11

9 Remember? The newline Character We use a special character called the newline to indicate when a line ends We represent it as \n in strings Newline is still one character - not two >>> stuff = 'Hello\nWorld!' >>> stuff 'Hello\nWorld!' >>> print stuff Hello World! >>> stuff = 'X\nY' >>> print stuff X Y >>> len(stuff) 3 12

10 File Processing A text file can be thought of as a sequence of lines From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: Return-Path: <postmaster@collab.sakaiproject.org> Date: Sat, 5 Jan :12: To: source@collab.sakaiproject.org From: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Subject: [sakai] svn commit: r content/branches/ Details: 13

11 File Processing A text file has newlines at the end of each line From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: \n Return-Path: <postmaster@collab.sakaiproject.org>\n Date: Sat, 5 Jan :12: \n To: source@collab.sakaiproject.org\n From: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za\n Subject: [sakai] svn commit: r content/branches/\n \n Details: 14

12 File Handle as a Sequence A file handle open for read can be treated as a sequence of strings where each line in the file is a string in the sequence We can use the for statement to iterate through a sequence xfile = open('mbox.txt') for cheese in xfile: print cheese Remember - a sequence is an ordered set 15

13 Counting Lines in a File Open a file read-only Use a for loop to read each line Count the lines and print out the number of lines fhand = open('mbox.txt') count = 0 for line in fhand: count = count + 1 print 'Line Count:', count $ python open.py Line Count:

14 We Can Convert the Contents of a File Into a String Reading the *Whole* File We can read the whole file (newlines and all) into a single string >>> fhand = open('mbox-short.txt') >>> inp = fhand.read() >>> print len(inp) >>> print inp[:20] From stephen.marquar 17

15 Searching Through a File We can put an if statement in our for loop to only print lines that meet some criteria fhand = open('mbox-short.txt') for line in fhand: if line.startswith('from:') : print line 18

16 OOPS! What are all these blank lines doing here? From: From: From: From: 19

17 Remember: Each Line Ends with a Newline (\n) OOPS! What are all these blank lines doing here? Each line from the file has a newline at the end The print statement adds a newline to each line From: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za\n \n From: louis@media.berkeley.edu\n \n From: zqian@umich.edu\n \n From: rjlowe@iupui.edu\n \n... 20

18 Searching Through a File (fixed) We can strip the whitespace from the right-hand side of the string using rstrip() from the string library The newline is considered white space and is stripped fhand = open('mbox-short.txt') for line in fhand: line = line.rstrip() if line.startswith('from:') : print line From: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za From: louis@media.berkeley.edu From: zqian@umich.edu From: rjlowe@iupui.edu... 21

19 Using in to select lines We can look for a string anywhere in a line as our selection criteria fhand = open('mbox-short.txt') for line in fhand: line = line.rstrip() if not '@uct.ac.za' in line : continue print line From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: X-Authentication-Warning: set sender to stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za using f From: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Author: stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za From david.horwitz@uct.ac.za Fri Jan 4 07:02: X-Authentication-Warning: set sender to david.horwitz@uct.ac.za using -f... Why Is That Code a Bit Wasteful? 22

20 fname = raw_input('enter the file name: ') fhand = open(fname) count = 0 for line in fhand: if line.startswith('subject:') : count = count + 1 print 'There were', count, 'subject lines in', fname Prompt for File Name Enter the file name: mbox.txt There were 1797 subject lines in mbox.txt Enter the file name: mbox-short.txt There were 27 subject lines in mbox-short. txt What Would We Do to Protect Our Code from a Bad Filename? 23

21 Bad File Names fname = raw_input('enter the file name: ') try: fhand = open(fname) except: print 'File cannot be opened:', fname exit() count = 0 for line in fhand: if line.startswith('subject:') : count = count + 1 print 'There were', count, 'subject lines in', fname Enter the file name: mbox.txt There were 1797 subject lines in mbox.txt Enter the file name: na na boo boo File cannot be opened: na na boo boo 24

22 Lists: A Refresher & More A list allows us to put multiple values in a single variable A list is convenient, because it can store multiple values in a single package We ve seen and used lists: friends = ['Joseph', 'Glenn', 'Sally'] clothes = ['sock', 'shirt', 'pants'] 25

23 List Constants List constants are surrounded by square brackets and the elements in the list are separated by commas A list element can be any Python object - even another list A list can be empty >>> print [1, 24, 76] [1, 24, 76] >>> print ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'] ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'] >>> print ['red', 24, 98.6] ['red', 24, ] >>> print [ 1, [5, 6], 7] [1, [5, 6], 7] >>> print [] [] 26

24 We already use lists! for i in [5, 4, 3, 2, 1] : print i print 'Blastoff!' Blastoff! 27

25 Lists and definite loops - best pals friends = ['Joseph', 'Glenn', 'Sally'] for friend in friends : print 'Happy New Year:', friend print 'Done!' Happy New Year: Joseph Happy New Year: Glenn Happy New Year: Sally Done! 28

26 Looking Inside Lists Just like strings, we can get at any single element in a list using an index specified in square brackets Joseph 0 Glenn 1 Sally 2 >>> friends = [ 'Joseph', 'Glenn', 'Sally' ] >>> print friends[1] Glenn >>> 29

27 Lists are Mutable Strings are immutable - we cannot change the contents of a string - we must make a new string to make any change Lists are mutable - we can change an element of a list using the index operator >>> fruit = 'Banana' >>> fruit[0] = 'b' Traceback TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment >>> x = fruit.lower() >>> print x banana >>> lotto = [2, 14, 26, 41, 63] >>> print lotto [2, 14, 26, 41, 63] >>> lotto[2] = 28 >>> print lotto [2, 14, 28, 41, 63] 30

28 How Long is a List? The len() function takes a list as a parameter and returns the number of elements in the list Actually len() tells us the number of elements of any set or sequence (such as a string...) >>> greet = 'Hello Bob' >>> print len(greet) 9 >>> x = [ 1, 2, 'joe', 99] >>> print len(x) 4 >>> 31

29 Using the range function The range function returns a list of numbers that range from zero to one less than the parameter We can construct an index loop using for and an integer iterator >>> print range(4) [0, 1, 2, 3] >>> friends = ['Joseph', 'Glenn', 'Sally'] >>> print len(friends) 3 >>> print range(len(friends)) [0, 1, 2] >>> 32

30 These Two Loops Do the Same Thing A tale of two loops... friends = ['Joseph', 'Glenn', 'Sally'] for friend in friends : print 'Happy New Year:', friend for i in range(len(friends)) : friend = friends[i] print 'Happy New Year:', friend >>> friends = ['Joseph', 'Glenn', 'Sally'] >>> print len(friends) 3 >>> print range(len(friends)) [0, 1, 2] >>> Happy New Year: Joseph Happy New Year: Glenn Happy New Year: Sally 33

31 Just Like With Strings! Concatenating lists using + We can create a new list by adding two existing lists together >>> a = [1, 2, 3] >>> b = [4, 5, 6] >>> c = a + b >>> print c [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] >>> print a [1, 2, 3] 34

32 Just Like With Strings! Lists can be sliced using : >>> t = [9, 41, 12, 3, 74, 15] >>> t[1:3] [41,12] >>> t[:4] [9, 41, 12, 3] >>> t[3:] [3, 74, 15] >>> t[:] [9, 41, 12, 3, 74, 15] Remember: Just like in strings, the second number is up to but not including 35

33 List Methods >>> x = list() >>> type(x) <type 'list'> >>> dir(x) ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'] >>> 36

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35 Building a List from Scratch We can create an empty list and then add elements using the append method The list stays in order and new elements are added at the end of the list >>> stuff = list() >>> stuff.append('book') >>> stuff.append(99) >>> print stuff ['book', 99] >>> stuff.append('cookie') >>> print stuff ['book', 99, 'cookie'] 38

36 Is Something in a List? Python provides two operators that let you check if an item is in a list These are logical operators that return True or False They do not modify the list >>> some = [1, 9, 21, 10, 16] >>> 9 in some True >>> 15 in some False >>> 20 not in some True >>> 39

37 A List is an Ordered Sequence A list can hold many items and keeps those items in the order until we do something to change the order A list can be sorted (i.e., change its order) >>> friends = [ 'Joseph', 'Glenn', 'Sally' ] >>> friends.sort() >>> print friends ['Glenn', 'Joseph', 'Sally'] >>> print friends[1] Joseph >>> The sort method (unlike in strings) means sort yourself 40

38 Built-in Functions and Lists There are a number of functions built into Python that take lists as parameters Remember the loops we built? These are much simpler. >>> nums = [3, 41, 12, 9, 74, 15] >>> print len(nums) 6 >>> print max(nums) 74 >>> print min(nums) 3 >>> print sum(nums) 154 >>> print sum(nums)/len(nums) 25 41

39 total = 0 count = 0 while True : inp = raw_input('enter a number: ') if inp == 'done' : break value = float(inp) total = total + value count = count + 1 average = total / count print 'Average:', average Enter a number: 3 Enter a number: 9 Enter a number: 5 Enter a number: done Average: numlist = list() while True : inp = raw_input('enter a number: ') if inp == 'done' : break value = float(inp) numlist.append(value) average = sum(numlist) / len(numlist) print 'Average:', average 42

40 Best Friends: Strings and Lists >>> abc = 'With three words' >>> stuff = abc.split() >>> print stuff ['With', 'three', 'words'] >>> print len(stuff) 3 >>> print stuff[0] With >>> print stuff ['With', 'three', 'words'] >>> for w in stuff :... print w... With Three Words >>> Split breaks a string into parts and produces a list of strings. We think of these as words. We can access a particular word or loop through all the words. The Default Argument for split is <space>. See Examples 43

41 >>> line = 'A lot of spaces' >>> etc = line.split() >>> print etc ['A', 'lot', 'of', 'spaces'] >>> >>> line = 'first;second;third' >>> thing = line.split() >>> print thing ['first;second;third'] >>> print len(thing) 1 >>> thing = line.split(';') >>> print thing ['first', 'second', 'third'] >>> print len(thing) 3 >>> When you do not specify a delimiter, multiple spaces are treated like one delimiter You can specify what delimiter character to use in the splitting 44

42 From Sat Jan 5 09:14: fhand = open('mbox-short.txt') for line in fhand: line = line.rstrip() if not line.startswith('from ') : continue words = line.split() print words[2] Sat Fri Fri Fri... >>> line = 'From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: >>> words = line.split() >>> print words ['From', 'stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za', 'Sat', 'Jan', '5', '09:14:16', '2008'] >>> 45

43 The Double Split Pattern Sometimes we split a line one way, and then grab one of the pieces of the line and split that piece again From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: words = line.split() = words[1] print pieces[1] ['stephen.marquard', 'uct.ac.za'] 46

44 The Double Split Pattern Sometimes we split a line one way, and then grab one of the pieces of the line and split that piece again From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: words = line.split() = words[1] print pieces[1] stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za 47

45 The Double Split Pattern Sometimes we split a line one way, and then grab one of the pieces of the line and split that piece again From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: words = line.split() = words[1] pieces = .split('@') print pieces[1] stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za ['stephen.marquard', 'uct.ac.za'] 48

46 The Double Split Pattern Sometimes we split a line one way, and then grab one of the pieces of the line and split that piece again From stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14: words = line.split() = words[1] pieces = .split('@') print pieces[1] print pieces[1] stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za ['stephen.marquard', 'uct.ac.za'] 'uct.ac.za' 49