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2/23/2016 - 10:44 PM

[python] count hour distribution

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 stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14:16 2008 Once you have accumulated the counts for each hour, print out the counts, sorted by hour as shown below.

count_hour_distrubution.py
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name = raw_input("Enter file:")
if len(name) < 1 : name = "mbox-short.txt"
handle = open(name)

hours = dict()
for line in handle.readlines():
    if line.startswith('From '):
		h = line.split(' ')[6].split(':')[0]
		hours[h] = hours.get(h, 0) + 1

for key in sorted(hours):
    print key, hours[key]