# Chapter 10 Exercise 2: Item Counter # This program creates a file called names.dat and then displays the number of names stored in the file # Written by Beth Mela # Last updated May 19th, 2015 # Create/ open the file for write access myFile = open("names.dat",'w') # Write to the file myFile.write("Adam\n") myFile.write("Beth\n") myFile.write("Carrie\n") myFile.write("Daniel\n") # Close the file myFile.close() # Open the file and Count the number of names stored in the file count=0 with open ('names.dat','r') as fxn: for line in fxn: count+=1 # Print the results print ('The number of names stored in this file is: {}.'.format(count))
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