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9.4 Write a program to read through the mbox-short.txt and figure out who has the sent the greatest number of mail messages. The program looks for 'From ' lines and takes the second word of those lines as the person who sent the mail. The program creates a Python dictionary that maps the sender's mail address to a count of the number of times th…
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fname = input("Enter file:") | |
if len(fname) < 1 : name = "mbox-short.txt" | |
hand = open(fname) | |
lst = list() | |
for line in hand: | |
if not line.startswith("From:"): continue | |
line = line.split() | |
lst.append(line[1]) | |
counts = dict() | |
for word in lst: | |
counts[word] = counts.get(word,0) + 1 | |
bigcount = None | |
bigword = None | |
for word,count in counts.items(): | |
if bigcount is None or count > bigcount: | |
bigcount = count | |
bigword = word | |
print (bigword,bigcount) |
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