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processes a series of text file - paolozzigiuseppe9 - Jan-09-2020
Hello everyone! I should solve an exercise in python language and I am not able. This is the exercise:
"Create a Python program that processes a series of text files that contain information related to a set of recipes.
File: Apple Pie.txt
Apples, 4
Sugar, 5
Flour, 6
Eggs, 2
File: Spaghetti in white.txt
Spaghetti, 100
Each file is called as a recipe. It contains the ingredients of that recipe. Each ingredient also has a quantity.
1. For each ingredient, print how many recipes it is associated with.
2. Find recipes that share at least 2 ingredients.
3. For each recipe print how many are its ingredients.
4. Find recipes with the same ingredients.
Thanks in advance!
RE: processes a series of text file - perfringo - Jan-09-2020
What have you tried and where did you get stuck?
Some ideas:
It's unclear whether you have list of filenames on you should scan a directory. You should address that and process all required files.
For every file program must do:
# read the file:
# store data from file (with association between recipe, ingredient, qty)
Then you have to query stored data to get answers for 4 questions asked.
After identifying general tasks you can proceed with smaller steps:
- how to read file
- how to process data in file
- how to store processed data (which datastructure, which datatype etc)