File Reader

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from random import randrange

def copy_file(s:str): infile_name = input("Please enter the name of the file to copy: ") infile = open(infile_name, 'r', errors='ignore') outfile_name = input("Please enter the name of the new copy: ") outfile = open(outfile_name, 'w') a=infile.readlines() start=0 end=0 if s ==('line numbers'): for i in range(len(a)): outfile.write ("{:5d}: ".format(i) + a[i])

elif s==("Gutenberg trim"):
    counter=0
    counter1=0
    for n in a:
         counter+=1
         if "*** START" in n:
             start=counter

             break
    for g in a:
         counter1 += 1 
         if "*** END"  in g:
            end=counter1 -1

            break
    x=(a[start +1:end])
    outfile.writelines(x)

elif s==("statistics"):
    empty_lines = 0
    count = 0
    all_avg = 0
    no_empty_avg = 0
    for n in a:
        for i in n.split():
            count += len(i)
        if not n.strip():
            empty_lines += 1
            no_empty_avg = count / (len(a) - empty_lines)
            all_avg= count / len(a)
    print("{:6d}   {:s}".format(len(a), "lines in the list"))
    print("{:6d}   {:s}".format(empty_lines, "empty lines"))
    print("{:8.1f} {:s}".format(all_avg , "average characters per line"))
    print("{:8.1f} {:s}".format(no_empty_avg, "average characters per non-empty line"))
    print (len(a))
else:
    print("cya nerd")

(copy_file('statistics'))

Built With

• python