Question

Write a script that will read the file, (strip the carriage returns), create a dictionary of names and favorite radishes and create a dictionary of each radish type and the number of people who chose that as their favorite.

Answer 1

python code below:

names={}#first dictionary for names and favorite

favor={}#radish type and how many are favorite

f=open("raddish.txt")#opening file

for i in f:#for each line

j=i.strip().split("-")#splitting base on -

names[j[0].strip()]=j[1].strip()#getting first dictionary

if j[1].lower().strip() in favor:#counting the favorite elements

favor[j[1].lower().strip()]+=1

else:

favor[j[1].lower().strip()]=1

print ("First Dictionary",names)#printing the names

print("second dictionary:",favor)#printing the favorite numbers

f.close()#closing file

Step-by-step explanation:

The program was implemented using python programming language.

Its operation is to read the file, (strip the carriage returns), create a dictionary of names and favorite radishes and create a dictionary of each radish type and the number of people who chose that as their favorite.

It returns as output the names of people entered for the Radishes.

See attachment for screenshot.