'''
   linereader.py
   Jeff Ondich, 2013-01-04

   Reads lines from a file, prints them in upper-case, and prints
   a count of the lines at the end.
   
   Intended as the Python half of parallel examples in Python and
   Java. See LineReader.java.
'''

inputFilePath = 'somelines.txt'
try:
    inputFile = open(inputFilePath)
except Exception, e:
    print >>sys.stderr, 'Cannot open', inputFilePath
    exit()

numberOfLines = 0
for line in inputFile:
    print line.upper(),
    numberOfLines += 1
print '\nNumber of lines:', numberOfLines