Consider a file, SPORT.DAT, containing records of the following structure: [SportName, TeamName, No_Players] Write a function, copyData(), that reads contents from the file SPORT.DAT and copies the records with Sport name as “Basket Ball” to the file named BASKET.DAT. The function should return the total number of records copied to the file BASKET

 

Consider a file, SPORT.DAT, containing records of the following
structure:
[SportName, TeamName, No_Players]
Write a function, copyData(), that reads contents from the file
SPORT.DAT and copies the records with Sport name as “Basket Ball”
to the file named BASKET.DAT. The function should return the total
number of records copied to the file BASKET.DAT.'''

Function  in python to copy records from on binary file to another file 

'''(ii) Consider a file, SPORT.DAT, containing records of the following

structure:

[SportName, TeamName, No_Players]

Write a function, copyData(), that reads contents from the file

SPORT.DAT and copies the records with Sport name as “Basket Ball”

to the file named BASKET.DAT. The function should return the total

number of records copied to the file BASKET.DAT.'''

import pickle

def copyData():

    f=open("SPORT.DAT","rb")

    count=0

    data=pickle.load(f)

    a=[]

    for i in data:

        if i[0]=='Basket Ball':

            a.append(i)

            count+=1

    fobj=open("BASKET.DAT","wb")

    pickle.dump(a,fobj)

    

    

    f.close()

    fobj.close()

    return count

copyData()

            

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