'''
   linereader.py
   Jeff Ondich, 2013-01-04
   Anna Rafferty, 2016-08-24 (conversion to python3)
   Jed Yang, 2017-01-07

   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.
'''
import sys

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

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