This is a Python problem. Still an intro course and I need some guidance on how

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This is a Python problem. Still an intro course and I need some guidance on how to approach/do this. Thanks in advance!

2. (File Output, 10pt) Your goal in the problem is to write a functions days(fname) that counts how often each weekday is mentioned in the textfile with name fname, and writes the result to a logfile with name fname_daycount.txt (where fname is replaced by the atual filename). For example, I ran days(innocents.txt'), and it created the following text-file (you can see the name of the file at the top). Use a loop for the writing, do not create seven separate write statements. innocents.txt daycount.tt- Notepacd File Edit Format View Help Monday is mentioned 4 times in innocents.txt Tuesday is mentioned 3 times in innocents.txt wednesday is mentioned 2 times in innocents.txt Thursday is mentioned 3 times in innocents.txt Friday is mentioned 7 times in innocents.txt Saturday is mentioned 9 times in innocents.txt sunday is mentioned 17 times in innocents.txt Hint: Use count on the full text (no need to split, though you can), and don't worry about case (so case- sensitive is fine here). You can also test your program on the other texts: innocents.txt, sawyer.txt, roughing.txt, stranger.txt. For the filename: initially hardcode a name like 'daycount.txt', and then think about how to include fname in the name of the file you write. ov to inude fhame in the namerr he ynmte dnaceni aas

Explanation / Answer

#python code to count the occurence of weekdays in a file

import re

def days(filename):
# Open a file
fo = open(outputfilename, "wb")
fh = open(filename, "r+")

#reading file to string
str = fh.read()
str = str.lower()
words = str.split()

print words
#counting the days in weekdays
count_monday = words.count("monday")
count_tuesday = words.count("tuesday")
count_wednesday = words.count("monday")
count_thursday = words.count("monday")
count_friday = words.count("friday")
count_saturday = words.count("monday")
count_sunday = words.count("monday")

#writing to file
print >> fo, "monday is mentioned ", count_monday , "times in" , filename, " "
print >> fo, "tuesday is mentioned ", count_tuesday , "times in" , filename, " "
print >> fo, "wednesday is mentioned ", count_wednesday , "times in" , filename, " "
print >> fo, "thursday is mentioned ", count_thursday , "times in" , filename, " "
print >> fo, "friday is mentioned ", count_friday , "times in" , filename, " "
print >> fo, "saturday is mentioned ", count_saturday , "times in" , filename, " "
print >> fo, "sunday is mentioned ", count_sunday , "times in" , filename, " "
  
# Close opend file
fo.close()
fh.close()

days(inputfile)

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