week-6-activity.ipynb

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    "# Week 6 Activities\n",
    "\n",
    "1. Make a list of dictionaries\n",
    "2. Make citations out of structured data\n",
    "2. Opening a weirdly encoded file\n",
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    "## Dictionaries\n",
    "\n",
    "**A1**: Create a list of dictionaries for your 5 favorite books. Each dictionary should contain the follwing keys: *author*, *title*, *year*, *publisher*, and *city*. "
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    "book_list = [\n",
    "    {\"author\":\"Frank Herbert\", \"title\":\"Dune\", \"publisher\":\"Chilton Books\", \"year\":1965, \"city\":\"Philadelphia\"},\n",
    "    {\"author\":\"Herman Hesse\", \"title\":\"Glass Bead Game\", \"publisher\":\"Holt, Rinehart and Winston\", \"year\":1943, \"city\":\"dunno\"},\n",
    "    {\"author\":\"Octavia Butler\", \"title\":\"Parable of the Sower\", \"publisher\":\"Four Walls Eight Windows\", \"year\":1993, \"city\":\"New York\"},\n",
    "    {\"author\":\"Octavia Butler\", \"title\":\"Parable of the Talents\", \"publisher\":\"Four Walls Eight Windows\", \"year\":1998, \"city\":\"New York\"},\n",
    "    {\"author\":\"Datus Proper\", \"title\":\"What the Trout Said\", \"publisher\":\"Lyons & Burford\", \"year\":1982, \"city\":\"New York\"}\n",
    "    \n",
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    "book_list"
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    "---"
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    "**A2** Loop over the list of your top 5 books print a citation in the MLA format and write the citations to a file called `bibliography.txt`\n",
    "\n",
    "`Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date.`\n",
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    "bib_file = open(\"bibliography.txt\", \"a\")\n",
    "\n",
    "for book in book_list:\n",
    "    first, last = book[\"author\"].split()\n",
    "    citation = last + \", \" + first + \". \" + book[\"title\"] + \". \" + book[\"city\"] + \", \" + str(book['year']) + \".\"\n",
    "    print(citation)\n",
    "    bib_file.write(citation + \"\\n\")\n",
    "    \n",
    "bib_file.close()"
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    "---\n"
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    "**A3** You have been given a mysterious text file, `mysterious-file.txt`. It has been encoded as a `koi8_r` file. Write some Python code to open the file with the proper encoding, read it into memory, then write it back to disk withe the \"utf-8\" encoding.\n",
    "\n",
    "![Mr. Rogers in Russia](https://andrewferguson.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mr-rogers-russia.jpg)\n"
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    "# Open the file with the koi8_r file encoding\n",
    "fileh = open(\"files/mystery-file.txt\", encoding=\"koi8_r\")"
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    "# Read the file into the variable song\n",
    "song = fileh.read()\n",
    "# close the fileh handler for good hygine since we have read it into memor\n",
    "fileh.close()\n",
    "# print the song, using print so we can see newlines\n",
    "print(song)"
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    "# Open a new file handler for writing\n",
    "new_file = open(\"obvious-file.txt\", 'w', encoding=\"utf-8\")\n",
    "# Write song to the file\n",
    "new_file.write(song)\n",
    "# close the file handler to ensure \n",
    "new_file.close()"
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