To study the numbers of different species, we will read data from the counts taken at various locations, sum them up, and store them in a new text file.
You have a text file containing population dynamics data of various species. Each entry is stored on a separate line in the following format:
“speciesName,populationName,populationName”
Write a Python script that includes the following functionalities:
read_data that takes the name of a file as input.· The function should open the text file.
· The file should be read line by line.
· The function returns a dictionary with the population data. The species names serve as the keys in the dictionary, and the corresponding value is the sum of the population counts for that species.
write_population_data that writes the population data to a text file. The function should have the following input parameters:· populations: a dictionary with population data as returned by the read_data function.
· output file: the name of the text file where the data should be written.