Guidelines for completing and submitting homework
Refer to the first two paragraphs on the Grading Info page for all the details.  Briefly, you may not collaborate with your classmates while writing homework programs.  However, you may certainly consult Spencer on Thursday evenings or Dr. V on Friday afternoons as you create your programs.  (Email your program to me first to check that I'm in the office.)  Other QRC mentors may also be able to help out, depending on their experience with Python.  Once you have completed your program, or made as much progress as possible, email your program as an attachment to svandervelde@stlawu.edu.

Assignment
To begin, create a new document in Komodo and include these comments at the top
# Your full name
# Homework #5, Oct 19, 2012
# Individuals providing assistance, if any
Then save your file using the format LastnameHW5.py.

Now write a program that performs the three tasks described below.  (It will help to copy and paste lines of code from the urllib.py file available via our Schedule page.)

• Determine the percentage of words in the word.txt file that begin and end with the same letter.  In this and the subsequent parts, be sure to first clean up each line of the file with .strip and .lower commands.
• Print all words in the word.txt file with three or more letters that contain none of the vowels a, e, i, o, u.  (In other words, words like "gym" or "tryst".)
• Choose your favorite common letter of the alphabet.  (So avoid letters like j or q.)  Then print out all words from the word.txt file in which your letter appears at least four times.