On 05/08/15 23:58, Ltc Hotspot wrote:
fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
handle = open (fname, 'r')
for line in handle:
if line.startswith("From: "):
address = line.split()[1]
So far so good.
## The program creates a Python dictionary that maps
## the sender's mail address to a count of the number
## of times they appear in the file.
count = dict()
But here you create a brand new dictionary.
Every time you go round the loop.
And it wipes out the old one.
You need to move that out of the loop.
for wrd in address:
address is a string. So wrd will be set to every
character in the string. I don;t think that's what
you want?
count[wrd]= count.get(wrd,0) +1
## After the dictionary is produced, the program reads
## through the dictionary using a maximum loop to
## find the greatest number of mail messages.
maxval = none
maxkee = none
See my previous email. none should be None.
Case matters in Python.
for kee, val in count.items():
if maxval == none or maxval <val:
maxval = val
maxkee = kee
#items are printed
print address
Notice that address gets reset every time the loop reads
a new line so this will only print the last address.
But maybe that's what you wanted?
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