In python, I need to open a text file that I have, read each character from the

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In python, I need to open a text file that I have, read each character from the file and store it to a list. Then I need to traverse the list and determine each letter's ASCII code and output the ASCII code to an output file with one code per line. Then I need a second seperate program that coverts the values stored in the output file back to letters and store those to a second output file. It has to have 2 functions and one has to have parameters. I have been trying on this for hours now and have gotten absolutely nowhere. Thanks for any help.

Explanation / Answer

#FIRST PROGRAM

#LET THE INPUT TEXT FILE BE CALLED input.txt

#LET THE OUTPUT TEXT FILE BE CALLED output.txt

#make sure input.txt is in the same directory as this code

#function 1

def readInput():

f=open("input.txt","r")

text=f.read();

f.close();

textList=[]

for c in text:

textList.append(c)

return textList

#function 2

def convertASCII(textList):

f=open("output.txt","w")

for c in textList:

f.write(str(ord(c))+" ")

f.close()

#run both functions

input = readInput()

convertASCII(input)

#############################################################

#SECOND PROGRAM

#LET THE INPUT TEXT FILE BE THE PREVIOUS OUTPUT FILE output.txt

#LET THE OUTPUT TEXT FILE BE CALLED FinalOutput.txt

#make sure output.txt is in the same directory as this code

#function 1

def readOutput():

f=open("output.txt","r")

text=f.read();

f.close();

asciiList=text.split()

return asciiList

#function 2

def ASCIItoTEXT(asciiList):

f=open("FinalOutput.txt","w")

for c in asciiList:

f.write(chr(int(c)))

f.close()

#run both functions

ascii = readOutput()

ASCIItoTEXT(ascii)

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