# open a file called employee for reading emp = open("employee.txt") # open the van wyk file for writting so we can add all employee with the van wyk surname vanwyk= open("vanwyk.txt", "w") anotherEmp = open("anothe.txt.", "w") totvanwyk = 0 # to count the total number of employees with the surname van wyk # for loop that will go through each record in a file for record in emp number,surname,initials,salary = record.split(",") # 1,van wyk, j,3000 if surname == "van wyk": # write all the employees details whose surname is van wyk into a file vanwyk,write("",joinrecord) + "\r") totvanwyk= totvanwyk + 1 # To count the total number of employees with the surname van wyk else: another Emp.writer(""join(record) + "\r") # Adding all other employees in a file called another print("",join(record)) # Print each employee details) Print("The total number of employee with the surname van wyk is:", totvanwyk) vanwyk.close() anotherEmp.close() emp.close() vanwyk = open("vanwyk,txt", "r") # openned the van wyk file for reading for rec in vanwyk rec = vanwyk.readline() # Allows to read all the records in the van wyk file print(rec) vanwyk.close()