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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…
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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name = input("Enter file:")
if len(name) < 1:
    name = "mbox-short.txt"
handle = open(name, "r")

counts = dict()
big_value = None
big_Key = None

for line in handle:
    if line.startswith("From:"):
        words = line.split()
        word = words[1]
        word = word.strip()
        counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1

#print(counts)

for key, value in counts.items():
    if big_value is None or big_value < value:
        big_key = key
        big_value = value
        
print(big_key,big_value)
        
        


        
       


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