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7.2 Write a program that prompts for a file name, then opens that file and reads through the file, looking for lines of the form: X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.8475 Count these lines and extract the floating point values from each of the lines and compute the average of those values and produce an output as shown below. Do not use the sum() function or …
# Use the file name mbox-short.txt as the file name
fname = input("Enter file name: ")
fhand = open(fname)
count = 0
for line in fhand:
if line.startswith("X-DSPAM-Confidence:") :
count = count + 1
total = 0
for line in fhand:
if line.startswith("X-DSPAM-Confidence:"):
line = float(line[21:])
total = line + total
average = total/ count
print("Average spam confidence:",average)
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JusticeSelormBruce commented Apr 22, 2021

solution

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
fh = open(fname)
counter =0
result =0
for line in fh:
if not line.startswith("X-DSPAM-Confidence:") : continue
index = line.find(":")
value = line[index+1:len(line)]
number = value.strip()
float_number =float(number)
result = result + float_number
counter = counter + 1
print("Average spam confidence: {}".format(result/counter))

@snehaguptaa
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Easiest answer:
fil = open('C:\Users\admin\OneDrive\Desktop\mbox-short.txt','r')
cnt = 0
a=0
for ch in fil:
if not ch.startswith('X-DSPAM-Confidence:'):
continue
print(ch.rstrip())
cnt+=1
i=ch[20:]
a+=float(i)
print("Average spam Confidence:",a/cnt)

@SayanDgp
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Use the file name mbox-short.txt as the file name

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
fhand = open(fname)

count = 0
for line in fhand:
if line.startswith("X-DSPAM-Confidence:") :
count = count + 1

total = 0
for line in fhand:
if line.startswith("X-DSPAM-Confidence:"):
line = float(line[21:])
total = line + total

average = total/ count

print("Average spam confidence:",average)

In the above code the logic in the line i couldn't got can anyone explain me please?
line = float(line[21:])
total = line + total

how 21 ?

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