Question

The steps.txt file contains the number of steps a person taken each day for a year. There are 365 lines in the file, and each line contains the number of steps taken during a day (the first line is steps taken January 1st and the last line is the steps taken on December 31). Write a function that reads the file, then displays the total number of the steps in that year, and an average number of steps taken for each month (February is not a leap year in this data). Also, use try, except and finally suite to handle the errors: FileNotFoundError, TypeError, and ZeroDivisionError. (question was simplified to calculate average per month, which should be number of days times higher than shown below)

Should Return:

The average steps taken in January was 5,246.1

The average steps taken in February was 4,851.9

The average steps taken in March was 5,777.6

The average steps taken in April was 5,802.1

The average steps taken in May was 4,711.5

The average steps taken in June was 4,792.3

The average steps taken in July was 5,638.2

The average steps taken in August was 5,759.6

The average steps taken in September was 6,114.6

The average steps taken in October was 5,411.0

The average steps taken in November was 4,268.8

The average steps taken in December was 5,138.1

Please code in Python 3

Answer 1

Please note: As per question leap year case is not handled. code is for only 365 days only.

Output:

code:

months = ['JANUARY', 'FEBRUARY', 'MARCH', 'APRIL', 'MAY', 'JUNE', 'JULY', 'AUGUST', 'SEPTEMBER', 'OCTOBER', 'NOVEMBER', 'DECEMBER']

month_days_arr = [31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]

try:

   current_month = 0

   current_month_days = month_days_arr[current_month]

   current_month_sum = 0

   file_handle = open('steps.txt','r')

   while True:

       for counter in range(current_month_days) :

           line = file_handle.readline()

           if not line:

               break

           current_month_sum += int(line)

       

       if not line:

            break

       

       try:

           print('The average steps taken in ' + months[current_month] + ' was ' + str(float(current_month_sum)/current_month_days))

       except ZeroDivisionError:

           print ('Skiping average steps taken in ' + months[current_month])

       

       if current_month < 11 :

            current_month += 1

            current_month_sum = 0

            current_month_days = month_days_arr[current_month]

except IOError:

   print ("Error: can\'t find file or read data")

finally:

   file_handle.close()

The average steps taken in JANUARY was 16.0 The average steps taken in FEBRUARY was 45.5 The average steps taken in MARCH was 75.0 The average steps taken in APRIL was 105.5 The average steps taken in MAY was 136.0 The average steps taken in JUNE was 166.5 The average steps taken in JULY was 197.0 The average steps taken in AUGUST was 228 .0 The average steps taken in SEPTEMBER was 258.5 The average steps taken in OCTOBER was 289.0 The average steps taken in NOVEMBER was 319.5 The average steps taken in DECEMBER was 350.0

The average steps taken in JANUARY was 16.0 The average steps taken in FEBRUARY was 45.5 The average steps taken in MARCH was 75.0 The average steps taken in APRIL was 105.5 The average steps taken in MAY was 136.0 The average steps taken in JUNE was 166.5 The average steps taken in JULY was 197.0 The average steps taken in AUGUST was 228 .0 The average steps taken in SEPTEMBER was 258.5 The average steps taken in OCTOBER was 289.0 The average steps taken in NOVEMBER was 319.5 The average steps taken in DECEMBER was 350.0