Challenge 3: World records

Suggested time: 30 minutes

A programmer is researching food related world records. They have a 2d list which stores:

  • the name of the record holder (e.g. Andre Ortolf)
  • the quantity of food consumed (e.g. 378)
  • the unit used to measure the quantity of food consumed (e.g grams)
  • the food consumed (e.g. peanut butter)
  • the time taken (e.g. 1)
  • the unit of time taken (e.g. minute)

The program should display the world records on screen exactly as shown below

Example program output showing the text to be displayed on screen

The program should also write the world records to the file output.txt formatted as a table. Each column should be separated by a | character. All columns must be centre aligned. The width of each column (not including the | characters should be 30 characters (Name), 50 characters (Food) and 30 characters (Time). The total width of the table should be 114 characters:

Example program output showing the text to be written to the file output.txt

Using the file Q06.py below:

Amend the program to meet the following requirements:

  • Display the world records on screen in sentences as shown above
  • Write the world records to the file output.txt as shown above
  • Use comments, whitespace, local variables subprograms
  • Use string formatting to centre align the columns in the table

Do not change any other functionality.

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