F.E. PPS Unit 4 Practical 8 solution

				
					# Program to calculate the percentage of vowels and consonants in a file

# Function to calculate vowels and consonants
def calculate_vowel_consonant_percentage(filename):
    try:
        # Open the file in read mode
        with open(filename, "r") as file:
            content = file.read().lower()  # Read file content and convert to lowercase

            # Define vowels
            vowels = "aeiou"
            total_chars = len(content)  # Total number of characters in file
            vowel_count = sum(1 for char in content if char in vowels)  # Count vowels
            consonant_count = sum(1 for char in content if char.isalpha() and char not in vowels)  # Count consonants

            # Avoid division by zero
            if total_chars == 0:
                print("The file is empty.")
                return

            # Calculate percentages
            vowel_percentage = (vowel_count / total_chars) * 100
            consonant_percentage = (consonant_count / total_chars) * 100

            # Display results
            print(f"Total Characters: {total_chars}")
            print(f"Vowel Count: {vowel_count}, Percentage: {vowel_percentage:.2f}%")
            print(f"Consonant Count: {consonant_count}, Percentage: {consonant_percentage:.2f}%")

    except FileNotFoundError:
        print("Error: The specified file was not found.")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")

# Call the function with the filename
calculate_vowel_consonant_percentage("sample.txt")