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Created July 5, 2016 12:43
10.2 Write a program to read through the mbox-short.txt and figure out the distribution by hour of the day for each of the messages. You can pull the hour out from the 'From ' line by finding the time and then splitting the string a second time using a colon. From [email protected] Sat Jan 5 09:14:16 2008 Once you have accumulated the c…
name = raw_input("Enter file:")
if len(name) < 1 : name = "mbox-short.txt"
handle = open(name)
d=dict()
for line in handle:
if not line.startswith("From "):
continue
else:
line=line.split()
line=line[5]