CSC111 Homework 9 2011

--D. Thiebaut 12:28, 13 November 2011 (EST)

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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 look something like this:

Average length of presidency.
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 with no presidents at all! Be sure you test your program well!

• 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