old_contents: #!/usr/bin/python
  # Copyright 2010 Google Inc.
  # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
  # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  
  # Google's Python Class
  # http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/
  
  import sys
  import re
  
  """Baby Names exercise
  
  Define the extract_names() function below and change main()
  to call it.
  
  For writing regex, it's nice to include a copy of the target
  text for inspiration.
  
  Here's what the html looks like in the baby.html files:
  ...
  <h3 align="center">Popularity in 1990</h3>
  ....
  <tr align="right"><td>1</td><td>Michael</td><td>Jessica</td>
  <tr align="right"><td>2</td><td>Christopher</td><td>Ashley</td>
  <tr align="right"><td>3</td><td>Matthew</td><td>Brittany</td>
  ...
  
  Suggested milestones for incremental development:
   -Extract the year and print it
   -Extract the names and rank numbers and just print them
   -Get the names data into a dict and print it
   -Build the [year, 'name rank', ... ] list and print it
   -Fix main() to use the extract_names list
  """
  
  def extract_names(filename):
    """
    Given a file name for baby.html, returns a list starting with the year string
    followed by the name-rank strings in alphabetical order.
    ['2006', 'Aaliyah 91', Aaron 57', 'Abagail 895', ' ...]
    """
    # +++your code here+++
    f = open(filename, 'rU')
    file_strings = f.read()
    nr_dict = {}
  
    tuples = re.findall(r'(Popularity in )(\d\d\d\d)', file_strings)
    year = tuples[0][1]
    print year
    tuples = re.findall(r'<td>(\d+)</td><td>(\w+)</td><td>(\w+)</td>', file_strings)
  
    for i in range(1,3):
      for nr_tuple in tuples:
        nr_dict[nr_tuple[i]] = nr_tuple[0]
    print nr_dict.items()
  
    return [] 
  
  
  def main():
    # This command-line parsing code is provided.
    # Make a list of command line arguments, omitting the [0] element
    # which is the script itself.
    args = sys.argv[1:]
  
    if not args:
      print 'usage: [--summaryfile] file [file ...]'
      sys.exit(1)
  
    # Notice the summary flag and remove it from args if it is present.
    summary = False
    if args[0] == '--summaryfile':
      summary = True
      del args[0]
  
    # +++your code here+++
    # For each filename, get the names, then either print the text output
    # or write it to a summary file
    for filename in args:
      name_list = extract_names(filename)
  
      if summary == False:
        print name_list
      else:
        print name_list
        #write the text output to a file
    
  if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
  
new_contents: #!/usr/bin/python
  # Copyright 2010 Google Inc.
  # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
  # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  
  # Google's Python Class
  # http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/
  
  import sys
  import re
  
  """Baby Names exercise
  
  Define the extract_names() function below and change main()
  to call it.
  
  For writing regex, it's nice to include a copy of the target
  text for inspiration.
  
  Here's what the html looks like in the baby.html files:
  ...
  <h3 align="center">Popularity in 1990</h3>
  ....
  <tr align="right"><td>1</td><td>Michael</td><td>Jessica</td>
  <tr align="right"><td>2</td><td>Christopher</td><td>Ashley</td>
  <tr align="right"><td>3</td><td>Matthew</td><td>Brittany</td>
  ...
  
  Suggested milestones for incremental development:
   -Extract the year and print it
   -Extract the names and rank numbers and just print them
   -Get the names data into a dict and print it
   -Build the [year, 'name rank', ... ] list and print it
   -Fix main() to use the extract_names list
  """
  
  def extract_names(filename):
    """
    Given a file name for baby.html, returns a list starting with the year string
    followed by the name-rank strings in alphabetical order.
    ['2006', 'Aaliyah 91', Aaron 57', 'Abagail 895', ' ...]
    """
    # +++your code here+++
    f = open(filename, 'rU')
    file_strings = f.read()
    nr_dict = {}
    output_ls = []
  
    tuples = re.findall(r'(Popularity in )(\d\d\d\d)', file_strings)
    year = tuples[0][1]
    output_ls.append(year)
  
    tuples = re.findall(r'<td>(\d+)</td><td>(\w+)</td><td>(\w+)</td>', file_strings)
  
    for i in range(1,3):
      for nr_tuple in tuples:
        nr_dict[nr_tuple[i]] = nr_tuple[0]
  
    for key in nr_dict.keys():
      output_ls.append(key + ' ' + nr_dict[key])
  
    return output_ls 
  
  
  def main():
    # This command-line parsing code is provided.
    # Make a list of command line arguments, omitting the [0] element
    # which is the script itself.
    args = sys.argv[1:]
  
    if not args:
      print 'usage: [--summaryfile] file [file ...]'
      sys.exit(1)
  
    # Notice the summary flag and remove it from args if it is present.
    summary = False
    if args[0] == '--summaryfile':
      summary = True
      del args[0]
  
    # +++your code here+++
    # For each filename, get the names, then either print the text output
    # or write it to a summary file
    for filename in args:
      name_list = extract_names(filename)
  
      if summary == False:
        print name_list
      else:
        print name_list
        #write the text output to a file
    
  if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
  
subject: Build the [year, 'name rank', ... ] list and print it