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* The output of your program should look something like this:
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* The output of your program should be only a few lines long.  We do not want to see the list of presidents.  Just something like this:
  
 
  Average length of presidency.
 
  Average length of presidency.
  44 presidents
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  File presidents.txt contains 44 presidents.
 
  Democratic presidents: x.xx years
 
  Democratic presidents: x.xx years
 
  Republican presidents: x.xx years
 
  Republican presidents: x.xx years
 
  Others: x.xx years
 
  Others: x.xx years
  
* The number of presidents (44) should be the number found by your program in the text file.  When I test your program, I may provide a '''presidents.txt''' file with fewer than 44 presidents.  Or with no presidents at all!  Be sure you test your program well!
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* The number of presidents (44) should be the number found by your program in the text file.  When I test your program, I may provide a '''presidents.txt''' file with fewer than 44 presidents.  Or a file that has just a header and no presidents at all! Or even a file with nothing in it, just empty. Be sure you test your program well so that it doesn't crash on any of these potential input files.
  
 
* Submit your program as follows:
 
* Submit your program as follows:

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Problem #1

  • Write a program called hw9a.py that outputs average length of the presidency of US presidents, categorized by party. Your program should get the information from a file called presidents.txt, whose contents is available here.
If you are working on beowulf, you can get a copy of the file into your account this way:
 getcopy presidents.txt


  • The output of your program should be only a few lines long. We do not want to see the list of presidents. Just something like this:
Average length of presidency.
File presidents.txt contains 44 presidents.
Democratic presidents: x.xx years
Republican presidents: x.xx years
Others: x.xx years
  • The number of presidents (44) should be the number found by your program in the text file. When I test your program, I may provide a presidents.txt file with fewer than 44 presidents. Or a file that has just a header and no presidents at all! Or even a file with nothing in it, just empty. Be sure you test your program well so that it doesn't crash on any of these potential input files.
  • Submit your program as follows:
rsubmit hw7 hw7a.py


if you worked on beowulf, or submit your program using this page: http://cs.smith.edu/~111a/submit9.html