Question

Write a program that outputs the following information from the numbers.txt file using StreamReader: a. The 5000th number in the file b. The largest number in the file Only output the two requested values, do not output any other numbers.

Answer 1

# open the file in read mode

with open("numbers.txt", "r") as f:

# create a StreamReader object

reader = f.readlines()

# get the 5000th number in the file

5000th_number = reader[4999]

# find the largest number in the file

largest_number = max(reader)

# print the results

print("The 5000th number in the file is:", 5000th_number)

print("The largest number in the file is:", largest_number)