CSC111 Homework 8 2011

--D. Thiebaut 20:23, 8 November 2011 (EST)

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This assignment is due on 11/15/11 evening, at midnight. It will be easiest for you to work on this assignment on beowulf, and not on your laptop/desktop.

Problem: Working with Files

• Check this page out: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html
• (If this page is not available, you can see a cached copy of it on beowulf: http://maven.smith.edu/~111a/1000best.html )
• It contains, according to the New York Times, the 1000 best movies ever made.
• The whole Web page is available for you to download to your 111a-xx account. All you need to do is login to your 111a-xx account, and type the following command at the prompt:

  getcopy 1000best.html

• Check the contents of your directory with ls: you should see the new file. It is fairly large, and contains roughly 320,000 characters.

Your assignment

• Write a program called hw8.py that will
  • ask the user for the year she was born in (or some other year),
  • open the html file, read it, and output all the movies that came out in that year, sorted in alphabetical order.
  • store this list to a text file, called movies_nnnn.txt, where nnnn will be the year selected by the user.

Example

• The user input is underlined:

python3.2 hw8.py
 
Selecting movies for which year? 1933
 
Movies that came out in 1933:

Cavalcade  
Dinner at Eight 
Duck Soup 
King Kong 
Little Women 
State Fair 
The Private Life of Henry VIII 
Zero for Conduct 

Saving movies to file movies_1933.txt

• At the end of the program a new file will be in the current directory, and its name will be movies_1933.txt