Question

I am having a hard time with my program to assignment 4.12. Here are the instructions:

The Payroll Department keeps a list of employee information for each pay period in a text file. The format of each line of the file is the following: <last name> <hours worked> <hourly wage>

Write a program that inputs a filename from the user and prints to the terminal a report of the wages paid to the employees for the given period.

• The report should be in tabular format with the appropriate header.
• Each line should contain:
  • An employee’s name
  • The hours worked
  • The wages paid for that period

THE OUTPUT NEEDS TO BE WHAT IS IN RED. PLEASE HELP!! MY PROGRAM KEEPS GIVING ME THE WRONG OUTPUT

• 
  Output Enter input file name: test.txt Hours w Name Lennon McCartney Harrison Starr Total Pay 39.96 399.00 100.10 12.39 Results Lennon 12 39.96 McCartney 57 399.00 Harrison 11 100.10 Starr 3 12.39 Show Details
  

HERES WHAT I HAVE:

# print the header on terminal
print('\n%-15s%-10s%-10s' % ('Name', 'Hours', 'Total Pay'))

# open the file and iterate line by line
for line in open(file_name):
line = line.strip()

# if line is not blank
if line != '':
# split the line and capture each group
(nm, wage, hours) = line.split()

# name is in string, while wage and hours next
# to be converted form stirng to float
wage = float(wage)
hours = float(hours)
pay = wage * hours

print('%-15s%-10d%-10.2f' % (nm, hours, pay))

Answer 1

print('\n%-15s%-10s%-10s' % ('Name', 'Hours', 'Total Pay'))

# open the file and iterate line by line
for line in open("detials.txt"):
   line = line.strip()

   # if line is not blank
   if line != '':
       # split the line and capture each group
       (nm, hours, wage) = line.split()

       # name is in string, while wage and hours next
       # to be converted form stirng to float
       wage = float(wage)
       hours = float(hours)
       pay = wage * hours

       print('%-15s%-10d%-10.2f' % (nm, hours, pay))

Activities 2 Text Editor Fri 14:12 Open & detials.txt -/Desktop Save wages.py detials.txt Lennon 12 3.33 McCartney 57 7.0 Harrison 11 9.1 Starr 34.13 Plain Text » Tab Width: 8 Ln 1, Col 1 INS

Activities 2 Text Editor Fri 14:12 Open A wages.py Desktop Save = 60 detials.txt wages.py print("\n%-155%-105%-105' % ('Name', 'Hours', 'Total Pay')) # open the file and iterate line by line for line in open("detials.txt"): line = line.strip # if line is not blank if line != '': # split the line and capture each group (nm, hours, wage) = line.split() # name is in string, while wage and hours next # to be converted form stirng to float wage = float(wage) hours = float(hours) pay = wage * hours print('%-155%-100%-10.2f' % (nm, hours, pay)) Python Tab Width: 8 Ln 11, Col 1 INS

Activities Terminal Fri 14:12 deepika@deepika-TravelMate-P243-M: -/Desktop File Edit View Search Terminal Help deepika@deepika-TravelMate-P243-M:-/Desktop$ python3 wages.py Name Hours Total Pay Lennon 12 39.96 McCartney 57 399.00 Harrison 11 100.10 Starr 12.39 deepika@deepika-TravelMate-P243-M:~/Desktops I

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