Python | Files and folders exercise | Read in a text file containing Muppet data, and print it out

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Software ==> Python  (28 exercises)
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Topic ==> Files and folders  (3 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Subject ==> Python training
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The text file in the folder above contains a list of Muppets:

Muppets

The file stores the animal type and colour of each Muppet.

 

Write a program which does the following to get the results shown below:

Step Hint
Opens the file Use with open(file_path,"r") as file_name
Reads in the lines Use read() to get the entire contents, then apply splitlines() to get a list of lines
For each line, gets the details Use split(",") to get a list of the details
Prints out the results for each You could use muppet, animal, colour = muppet_list to unpack the list into distinct variables

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Your program should produce this output:

Final list of Muppets

The final list of Muppets your program should print.

 

When everything is working, close down your program! 

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