[Tutor] Program help

[alexkleider]

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On Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:16 PM, nathan tech <nathan-tech at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Garrett
>
> This reads rather like a homework assignment! :)
>
> Here are some tips that I hope may help:
>
> think through what you need to do:
>
> 1.  Load the data.
> 2.  Do something with the data.
> 3.  Display the data in some way.
>
>     the first bit is quite easy:
>
>     f=open("population.txt","r")
>
>     data=f.read()
>
>     f.close()
>
>     data=data.split("\n")
>
>     Convert it to numbers:
>
>     for x in range(data):
>
>      data[x]=int(data[x])
>
>     The rest is just some fancy footwork with a for loop like the one above
>     and some organisation into variables depending on what you want to do
>     with it.
>
>     Hope this helps!
>
>     Nathan


The for loop didn't seem quite right to me since data appears to be a list.
Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
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>>> d = ['1', '3', '4']

>>> for x in range(d):
...   data[x] = int(d[x])
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'list' object cannot be interpreted as an integer
>>>

... or am I missing something?