KatieHoban

def open_file(file_name):
    file_object = open(file_name, 'r', encoding = 'ISO-8859-1')
    return file_object


def water_calculator(weight, activity_leveler, size):
    ounces = ((weight * (2/3))+((activity_leveler/30)*12))
    total_ounces = ounces*size
    return total_ounces
 

KatieHoban

#While this particular version takes files of the text on my followers and following pages, 
#it can be easily modified to check a past list of followers against a more recent list - 
#just replace following.txt with the "past followers" file and followers.txt with "present followers". 

#encoding may be 'utf-8' depending on the type of files you are using


with open('following.txt', 'r', encoding = 'latin-1') as following_file:
    with open('followers.txt', 'r', encoding = 'latin-1') as followers_file:
        discrepancy = set(following_file).difference(followers_file)