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: 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.

import pandas as pd

filename = input("Enter file name with the extension included: ")

data = {}

with open("filename", "r") as file:

   content = file.readlines()

   for line in content:

       line_list = line.strip().split(" ")

       data[line_list[0]] = line_list[1] * line_list[2]

       del line_list

report = pd.DataFrame(list(data.items()), columns = ["lastname", "wages paid"])

print(report)

Explanation:

The python module prompts the user for the file name and opens the text file to extract the employee data with the python open function. It iterates over the file content and saves the last name and the wages paid to the employees ( the hours worked multiplied by the hourly rate) in the dictionary "data".

The dictionary is converted to a dataframe with the Pandas python package and displays the data in tabular format on the screen.