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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 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.

name = input("Enter file:")
if len(name) < 1 : name = "mbox-short.txt"
handle = open(name)
counts=dict()
for line in handle:
    if not line.startswith('From '): continue
    #print(line)
    lin = line.rstrip().split()
    time = lin[5]
    tmesp = time.split(':')
    hour= tmesp[0]
    #print(hour)
    counts[hour]=counts.get(hour,0)+1
x = sorted(counts.items())   
for k,v in x:
    print(k,v)