These are the strings I'm slicing.
In the solution to this exercise, the programmer used positive and negative indices for slicing. I'd just like clarification about how the -26 index works in the solution (shared below).
Thank you!
counter_dict = {}
with open('Training_01.txt') as f:
line = f.readline()
while line:
line = line[3:-26]
if line in counter_dict:
counter_dict[line] += 1
else:
counter_dict[line] = 1
line = f.readline()
print(counter_dict)
After seeing the solution, I modified my answer, but instead of complete categories, my solution gave me incomplete categories.
with open('Training_01.txt', 'r') as open_file:
text = open_file.read()
new_page = text.split('\n')
categories = []
for category in new_page:
category = category[3:-26]
categories.append(category)
categories = set(categories)
print(len(categories))
for category in categories:
print(category)
