Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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13. Write function quote() that takes as input the name of a file (as a string) and an
index i (as an integer). The file will contain quotes, one per line. The function should
open the file, read the file, close the file, and return the i-th quote (i.e. the i-th line in the
file), assuming that the quote numbering starts at 0. Test your solution on
file Wilde_Quotes.txt.
>>> quote("Wilde_Quotes.txt", 5)
'At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though
perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the
poets.\n'
>>> quote("Wilde_Quotes.txt", 0)
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal
of it is absolutely fatal.\n'
>>> quote("Wilde_Quotes.txt", 23)
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. \n'
>>>

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