Python - File I/O

The random access memory is volatile and all its contents are lost once a program terminates. In order to persist the data forever, we use files. A file is data stored in a storage device. A python program can talk to the file by reading content from it and writing content to it.

Types of Files:

• Text files (.txt, .c, etc)
• Binary files (.jpg, .dat, etc)

Python has a lot of functions for reading, updating, and deleting files.

Opening a file:

Python has an open() function for opening files. It takes 2 parameters: filename and mode.

open(“this.txt”, “r”)

Here, “this” is the file name and “r” is the mode of opening (read mode)

Reading a file in Python:

f = open(“this.txt”, “r”)     #Opens the file in r mode

text = f.read()          #Read its content

print(text)     #Print its contents

f.close()         #Close the fie

We can also specify the number of characters in read () function:

f.read(2)       #Reads first 2 characters

Other methods to read the file

We can also use f.readline() function to read on full line at a time.

f.readline()               #Reads one line from the file

Modes of opening a file:

r - open for reading

w - open for writing

a - open for appending

+ - open for updating

‘rb’ will open for read in binary mode

‘rt’ will open for read in text mode

Writing Files in Python:

In order to write to a file, we first open it in write or append mode after which, we use the python’s f.write() method to write to the file!

f = open(“this.txt”, “w”)

f.write(“This is nice”)        #Can be called multiple times

f.close()

With statement:

The best way to open and close the file automatically is the “with” statement.

with open(“this.txt”) as f:

            f.read()

#There is no need to write f.close() as it is done automatically

Practice:

Write a program to read the text from a given file “poems.txt” and find out whether it contains the word ‘twinkle’.

The game() function in a program lets a user play a game and returns the score as an integer. You need to read a file “Hiscore.txt” which is either blank or contains the previous Hi-score. You need to write a program to update the Hi-score whenever game() breaks the Hi-Score.

Write a program to generate multiplication tables from 2 to 20 and write it to the different files. Place these files in a folder for a 13- year old boy.

A file contains the word “Donkey” multiple times. You need to write a program which replaces this word with ###### by updating the same file.

Repeat program 4 for a list of such words to be censored.

Write a program to mine a log file and find out whether it contains ‘python’.

Write a program to find out the line number where python is present from question 6.

Write a program to make a copy of a text file “this.txt”.

Write a program to find out whether a file is identical and matches the content of another file.

Write a program to wipe out the contents of a file using python.

Write a python program to rename a file to “renamed_by_python.txt”.

dll file missing - followersmonolog.dll there is a problem starting

 Whenever I start my computer, I am getting this annoying prompt up - "followersmonolog.dll there is a problem starting".

To resolve this follow below steps:

• Visit this official link (here) and click on Download Autoruns and Autorunsc. Once the archive is downloaded, use WinRar or WinZip to extract the utility into a folder that is easily accessible.
• Open the folder that you’ve just created and open the Autoruns executable. Wait patiently until the Everything list is populated with startup items.
• Once the list is fully populated, hit Ctrl + F to bring up the search function. In the search associated with Find what, type the name of the DLL file that is reported by the RunDLL error.
• Right-click on the highlighted startup key and choose Delete to remove it. Once you do this, hit the Find Next button again and delete every other entry that matches your query.
• Once all entries are deleter, close Autoruns and restart your computer.

Alternate solution:

An alternate method to resolve this issue is as follows:

1. Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools.

2. Open Task Scheduler and click on Task Scheduler Library.

3. Look through the list for an entry related to BackgroundContainer.

4. If found, right-click on it and select Delete.

5. Exit all programs and reboot the computer when done.

References:

https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/984294

https://appuals.com/fix-rundll-error-at-windows-startup/

OIC - Target REST endpoint response payload processing failed.[Content received of length XXX bytes exceeds the maximum allowed threshold of 10485760 bytes

ERROR

Target REST endpoint response payload processing failed.[Content received of length XXX bytes exceeds the maximum allowed threshold of 10485760 bytes]

CAUSE

The issue occurred due to a large payload. The payload was over the allowed limit (>10 MB) and the issue can reoccur at any time if you have large payloads. It is expected behavior.

 SOLUTION

Recommendation:

Reduce the payload size for a request as the limitation is 10 MB. We can't change the limit. It's the customer's responsibility to design the flow by taking into account the oic limitations

Suggestion:

Make multiple requests with smaller time intervals in order to reduce the payload

REFERENCE:

support.oracle.com

Python - Functions and Recursions

Function: 

• A function is a group of statements performing a specific task.
• When a program gets bigger in size and its complexity grows, it gets difficult for a programmer to keep track of which piece of code is doing what!
• A function can be reused by the programmer in a given program any number of times.

Example and Syntax of a function

The syntax of a function looks as follows:

def func1():

print(“Hello”)

This function can be called any number of times, anywhere in the program.

Function call:

Whenever we want to call a function, we put the name of the function followed by parenthesis as follows:

func1()          #This is called function call

Function definition:

The part containing the exact set of instructions that are executed during the function call.

Types of functions:

There are two types of functions in Python:

• Built-in functions #Already present in Python
• User-defined functions #Defined by the user

Examples of built-in function includes len(), print(), range(), etc.

The func1() function we defined is an example of user-defined function.

Functions with arguments:

A function can accept some values it can work with. We can put these values in the parenthesis. A function can also return values as shown below:

def greet(name):

gr = “Hello” + name

return gr

a = greet(“Tom”) #“Tom” is passed to greet in name

# a will now contain “Hello Tom”

Default Parameter Value:

We can have a value as default argument in a function.

If we specify name = “stranger” in the line containing def, this value is used when no argument is passed.

For Example:

def greet(name=’stranger’):

#function body

greet()                       #Name will be ‘stranger’ in function body(default)

greet(“Tom”)        #Name will be “Tom” in function body(passed)

Recursion:

Recursion is a function which calls itself.

It is used to directly use a mathematical formula as a function. For example:

factorial(n) = n * factorial(n-1)

This function can be defined as follows:

def factorial(n):

if i == 0 or i == 1 : #Base condition which doesn’t call the function any further

return i

else:

return n*factorial(n-1) #Function calling itself

The programmer needs to be extremely careful while working with recursion to ensure that the function doesn’t infinitely keep calling itself.

Recursion is sometimes the most direct way to code an algorithm.

 

Practice:

Write a program using the function to find the greatest of three numbers.

n1=int(input("Enter 1st num:"))

n2=int(input("Enter 2nd num:"))

n3=int(input("Enter 3rd num:"))

def greatestNumber(a,b,c):

    if a>b:

        if a>c:

            return a

        else:

            return c

    else:

        if b>c:

            return b

        else:

            return c

g=greatestNumber(n1,n2,n3)

print(f"Greatest of {n1}, {n2} and {n3} is: {g}")

Write a python program using the function to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

# (0°C × 9/5) + 32 = 32°F

def celsiusToFahrenheit(c):

    return (c * (9/5) + 32)

c=11

f=celsiusToFahrenheit(c)

How do you prevent a python print() function to print a new line at the end?

print("something", end="")

Write a recursive function to calculate the sum of first n natural numbers.

# sum of n natural numbers

# sum(n)= n + sum(n-1)

def sumOfNaturalNumbers(n):

    if n==1:

        return 1

    else:

        return n + sumOfNaturalNumbers(n-1)

num = int(input("Enter n number to sum for natural numbers:"))

sum=sumOfNaturalNumbers(num)

print(sum)

Write a python function to print the first n lines of the following pattern.

***

**       #For n = 3

*

Write a python function to remove a given word from a string and strip it at the same time.

def removeWordStrp(string,word):

    newString = string.replace(word,"").strip()

    return newString

string = "      Joy is a good boy       "

print(string)

print(removeWordStrp(string,"Joy"))

 

Python - Loops

A loop statement allows us to execute a statement or group of statements multiple times.

Types of loops:

Primarily there are two types of loops in Python

• While loop
• For loop

We will look into these one by one!

While loop:

The syntax of a while loop looks like this:

''' while condition:

    #Body of the loop '''

The block keeps executing until the condition is true/false

In while loops, the condition is checked first. If it evaluates to true, the body of the loop is executed, otherwise not! If the loop is entered, the process of condition check and execution is continued until the condition becomes false.

An Example:

i = 0

while i<5:

    print(“Sri”)

    i = i+1

(Above program will print Sri 5 times)

Note: if the condition never becomes false, the loop keeps getting executed.

For loop

A for loop is used to iterate through a sequence like list, tuple or string (iterables)

The syntax of a for loop looks like this:

l = [1, 7, 8]

for item in l:

print(item)

(Above program will print 1, 7 and 8)

Range function:

The range function in python is used to generate a sequence of numbers.We can also specify the start, stop and step-size as follows:

 range(start, stop, step_size)

step size is usually not used with range()

An example demonstrating range() function

for i in range(0, 7): #range(7) can also be used

print(i) #prints 0 to 6

For loop with else

An optional else can be used with a for loop if the code is to be executed when the loop exhausts.

Example:

l = [1, 7, 8]

for item in l:

print(item)

else:

print(“Done”) #This is printed when the loop exhausts!

Output:

1

7

8

Done

The break statement

‘break’ is used to come out of the loop when encountered. It instructs the program to – Exit the loop now

Example:

for i in range(0, 80):

print(i) #This will print 0, 1, 2 and 3

if i == 3:

break

The continue statement

‘continue’ is used to stop the current iteration of the loop and continue with the next one. It instructs the program to “skip this iteration”.

Example:

for i in range(4):

print(“printing”)

if i == 2: #if i is 2, the iteration is skipped

continue

print(i)

pass statement

pass is a null statement in python. It instructs to “Do nothing”.

Example:

l = [1, 7, 8]

for item in l:

pass #without pass, the program will throw an error

 

Practice:

Write a program to print the multiplication table of a given number using for loop.

num = int(input("Enter a number:\n"))

for i in range(1,11):

    n=num * i

    print(f"{num} * {i} : {n}")

Here, I used f string format.

Write a program to greet all the person names stored in a list l1 and which starts with S.

l1 = [“Harry”, “Sohan”, “Sachin”, “Rahul”]

l1 = ["Harry", "Sohan", "Sachin", "Rahul"]

for name in l1:

    if name.startswith('S'):

        print("hello",name)

Write a program to find whether a given number is prime or not.

num=int(input("Enter a number:"))

prime=False

if num==1:

    prime=True

for i in range(2,num):

    if num%i==0:

        prime=True          

        break

    else:

        prime=False

        

if prime==True:

    print("The number is not prime")

else:

    print("The number is prime")

Write a program to find the sum of first n natural numbers using a while loop.

n=int(input("Enter a number:"))

sum=0

for i in range(1,n+1):

    sum+=i

print(f"Sum of 1st {n} numbers is: {sum}")

Write a program to calculate the factorial of a given number using for loop.

num=int(input("Enter a number:"))

t=num

fact=1

while num >0:

    fact*=num

    num-=1

print(f"factorial of {t} is : {fact}")

Write a program to print the following star pattern.

    *

  ***  

***** for n=3

TBD:

Write a program to print the following star pattern:

*

**

*** for n = 3

n=3

for i in range(1,n+1):

    print("*" * i)

or

n=3

for i in range(1,n+1):

    for j in range(1,i+1):

        print("*", end="")

    print("")

Python - Conditional Expressions or Decision making statements

Python has some decision making conditional statements on which we can take some further steps. If the condition is TRUE then it perform some specific steps ELSE or FALSE it executes other specific statements.

Types of Condition statements:

• if Statement
• If else 
• if elif ...and else 

If else and elif statements are a multiway decision taken by our program due to certain conditions in our code.

Syntax:

if (condition1): // if condition 1 is true

print(“yes”)

elif (condition2): // if condition 2 is true

print(“No”)

else: // otherwise

print(“May be”)

Code example:

a = 22

if (a>9):

    print(“Greater”)

else:

    print(“lesser”)

Relational Operators:

Relational operators are used to evaluate conditions inside if statements. Some examples of relational operators are:

= = -> equals

>=  -> greater than/equal to

<=, etc.

Logical Operators:

In python, logical operators operate on conditional statements. Example:

and -> true if both operands are true else false

or -> true if at least one operand is true else false

not -> inverts true to false and false to true

elif clause

elif in python means [else if]. if statement can be chained together with a lot of these elif statements followed by an else statement.

if (condition1):

    #code

elif (condition 2):

    #code

elif (condition 2):

    #code

….

else:

    #code

Above ladder will stop once a condition in an if or elif is met.

Important Notes:

• There can be any number of elif statements.
• Last else is executed only if all the conditions inside elifs fail. 

Practice:

Write a program to print yes when the age entered by the user is greater than or equal to 18.

age=int(input("Enter your age:\n"))

if age >=18:

    print("Yes")

else:

    print("No")

Write a program to find the greatest of four numbers entered by the user.

n1=int(input("Enter number 1:"))

n2=int(input("Enter number 2:"))

n3=int(input("Enter number 3:"))

n4=int(input("Enter number 4:"))

if n1>n2:

    g1=n1

else:

    g1=n2

if n3>n4:

    g2=n3

else:

    g2=n4

if g1>g2:

    greatest=g1

else:

    greatest=g2

print("Greatest number is: ", greatest)

Write a program to find out whether a student is pass or fail if it requires a total of 40% and at least 33% in each subject to pass. Assume 3 subjects and take marks as an input from the user.

m1=int(input("Enter mark 1:"))

m2=int(input("Enter mark 2:"))

m3=int(input("Enter mark 3:"))

if (m1 <33 or m2<33 or m3<33):

    print("the Student failed as less than 33 in one of the subject")

elif ((m1+m2+m3)/3) <40:

    print("the Student failed as total is less than 40 parcentile")

else:

    print("The student has passed with ",(m1+m2+m3)/3)

A spam comment is defined as a text containing the following keywords:

“make a lot of money”, “buy now”, “subscribe this”, “click this”. Write a program to detect these spams.

text = input("Enter the text\n")

if("make a lot of money" in text):

    spam = True

elif("buy now" in text):

    spam = True

elif("click this" in text):

    spam = True

elif("subscribe this" in text):

    spam = True

else:

    spam = False

if(spam):

    print("This text is spam")

else:

    print("This text is not spam")

Write a program to find whether a given username contains less than 10 characters or not.

username=input("Enter your name:\n")

if len(username)<10:

    print("Username contains less than 10 chars")

else:

     print("Username contains more than or equal to 10 chars")

Write a program that finds out whether a given name is present in a list or not.

myList=['sri','ananda','joy','lilu']

name =input("Enter a name:\n")

if name in myList:

    print("Yes")

else:

    print("No")

Write a program to calculate the grade of a student from his marks from the following scheme:

90 – 100 -> Ex

80 - 90 -> A

70 – 80 -> B

60 – 70 -> C

50 – 60 -> D

<50 – F

mark=int(input("Enter your mark:"))

if mark >=90:

    print("Ex")

elif mark >=80:

    print("A")

elif mark >=70:

    print("B")

elif mark >=60:

    print("C")

elif mark >=50:

    print("D")

else:

    print("F")

Python - Dictionary and Sets

 Dictionary is a collection of key-value pairs.

Syntax:

''' a = {“key”: “value”, “marks” : “100”, “list”: [1,2,9]}

a[“key”] # Prints value

a[“list”] # Prints [1,2,9] '''

Properties of Python Dictionaries

• It is unordered
• It is mutable
• It is indexed
• Cannot contain duplicate keys

Dictionary Methods:

Consider the following dictionary,

a = {“name”: “Sri”,

“from”: “India”,

“marks”: [92,98,96]}

items() : returns a list of (key,value) tuple.

keys() : returns a list containing dictionary’s keys.

update({“friend”: “Sam”}) : updates the dictionary with supplied key-value pairs.

get(“name”) : returns the value of the specified keys (and value is returned e.g. “Sri” is returned here)

More methods are available on docs.python.org

Sets in Python:

Set is a collection of non-repetitive elements.

S= Set()          # No repetition allowed!

S.add(1)

S.add(2)

# or Set = {1,2}

Properties of Sets:

• Sets are unordered # Elements order doesn’t matter
• Sets are unindexed # Cannot access elements by index
• There is no way to change items in sets
• Sets cannot contain duplicate values

Operations on Sets:

Consider the following set:

S = {1,8,2,3}

Len(s) : Returns 4, the length of the set

remove(8) : Updates the set S and removes 8 from S

pop() : Removes an arbitrary element from the set and returns the element removed.

clear() : Empties the set S

union({8, 11}) : Returns a new set with all items from both sets. #{1,8,2,3,11}

intersection({8, 11}) : Returns a set which contains only items in both sets. #{8}

Practice:

Write a program to create a dictionary of Bengali words with values as their English translation. Provide the user with an option to look it up!

myDict={"sundar":"beautiful","nongra":"dirty","chini":"sugar"}

print("Optoons are sundar, nongra, chini:")

userInput=input("Enter a bengali word to the dictionary:\n")

print("english word is:",myDict[userInput])

Write a program to input eight numbers from the user and display all the unique numbers (once).

Answer: Use set

Can we have a set with 18(int) and “18”(str) as a value in it?

Answer: yes, because both have different types and value.

What will be the length of the following set S:

S = Set()

S.add(20)

S.add(20.0)

S.add(“20”)

What will be the length of S after the above operations?

Answer: 2

S = {}, what is the type of S?

Answer: Empty Dictionary

s={}

print(type(s))

Can you change the values inside a list which is contained in set S

S = {8, 7, 12, “Sri”, [1, 2]}

Answer: No,