Write a function named fileStats. The function fileStats takes two string parame

Question

Write a function named fileStats. The function fileStats takes two string

parameters: inFile, the name of an input file and outFile, the name of an

output file.

The function fileStats should read and analyze the contents of the input file

and write the statistics it compiles to the output file. The statistics you

should compute about the input file are:

the number of characters;

the number of words;

the number of lines;

the number of digits;

the number of punctuation marks

Each statistic should be written to a separate line of the output file. (Hint:

the string class contains constants named punctuation and digits.)

For example, if the input file contains the following lines:

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four,

Lord I'm 500 miles from my home.

500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles

Lord I'm five hundred miles from my home.

Then an output file with the following lines would be correct:

characters 181

words 35

lines 4

digits 15

punctuation 15

PLEASE ANSWER IN PYTHON

Explanation / Answer

import string

fname = 'kruti.txt'

def fileStats(inFile, outFile):
    I = open(inFile)
    O = open(outFile, 'w')
    F = I.readlines()
    s = ''
    chars = 0
    wordlist = []
    for line in F:
        chars += len(line)
        wordlist += line.split()
    s += "characters " + str(chars) + ' '
    s += "lines " + str(len(F)) + ' '
    s += "words " + str(len(wordlist)) + ' '
    dCount = 0
    pCount = 0
    for i in wordlist:
        for j in i:
            if j in string.punctuation: pCount +=1
            if j in string.digits: dCount += 1
    s += "digits " + str(dCount) + ' ' + 'punctuation ' + str(pCount) + ' '
    O.write(s)
    O.close()

fileStats(fname, 'out.txt')

kruti.txt

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four,
Lord I'm 500 miles from my home.
500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles
Lord I'm five hundred miles from my home.

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