Question: Decoding a Message from a Text File, you will develop a function named decode(message_file). This function should read an encoded message from a .txt file

Decoding a Message from a Text File, you will develop a function named decode(message_file). This function should read an encoded message from a .txt file and return its decoded version as a string.
Your function must be able to process an input file with the following format:

 3 love

 6 computers

 2 dogs

 4 cats

 1 I

 5 you 

In this file, each line contains a number followed by a word. The task is to decode a hidden message based on the arrangement of these numbers into a "pyramid" structure. The pyramid increases by one number per line, like so:

    1 

   2 3

 4 5 6
 The key to decoding the message is to use the words corresponding to the numbers at the end of each pyramid line (in this example, 1, 3, and 6). You should ignore all the other words. So for the example input file above, the message words are:

 1: I

 3: love

 6: computers

 and your function should return the string "I love computers".


Encoded Message List

Please copy the below list into a text file on your system to generate the decoded word sequence.

Encoded message list:

 

195 land

91 sun

266 too

120 huge

3 dont

140 such

69 noun

227 student

225 brown

263 complete

174 play

162 cook

40 yard

253 clock

80 would

202 plain

269 excite

109 fire

207 wish

138 cool

295 child

128 past

29 colony

51 oil

34 dog

211 back

226 money

11 kind

238 open

101 finger

74 touch

114 are

123 dad

142 am

165 modern

274 meant

150 ocean

167 pitch

18 suit

166 town

28 east

148 over

81 group

185 good

184 kind

1 down

273 band

235 especially

110 organ

276 of

59 fire

79 out

182 area

292 touch

284 happen

258 sat

71 electric

163 wrote

65 buy

10 lot

129 stop

297 corn

24 where

133 check

239 live

135 best

171 hold

130 cause

175 grand

241 present

87 indicate

161 counter

137 we

210 like

93 visit

47 state

220 morning

233 true

183 are

280 ball

288 history

5 seat

127 rain

200 less

243 glass

55 tone

111 song

143 fair

270 element

186 speed

112 produce

125 quotient

246 sand

156 begin

136 moment

23 offer

149 probable

299 all

134 necessary

298 post

44 cent

205 happen

76 speech

83 object

21 silver

14 third

157 crease

176 wait

90 triangle

58 idea

64 clothe

22 young

108 discuss

102 field

57 company

221 capital

272 compare

158 chart

139 possible

94 written

27 remember

104 mile

39 cold

168 lady

259 felt

285 against

228 skin

56 prepare

267 he

84 card

240 organ

154 object

255 our

19 major

73 discuss

214 system

17 hole

121 above

281 they

98 produce

35 straight

264 level

245 though

85 modern

260 dry

300 bought

291 milk

190 make

118 show

95 middle

88 center

61 blood

46 speak

7 prove

249 select

13 power

106 come

203 brown

4 experiment

198 strong

170 hurry

283 touch

68 reach

37 case

97 beat

189 over

290 dry

144 hill

113 company

26 opposite

15 work

48 field

237 felt

41 prepare

152 now

265 his

116 stay

160 toward

271 observe

244 time

78 stop

251 possible

33 card

268 prepare

43 current

224 compare

115 neighbor

213 thus

262 include

124 copy

66 bit

9 stead

92 does

229 general

178 solve

275 glad

36 duck

287 offer

30 happen

286 ball

119 bread

169 like

201 machine

63 come

191 any

196 band

209 it

278 section

199 close

25 heavy

155 produce

86 got

231 possible

117 insect

206 way

147 before

222 men

54 bird

179 ease

67 trade

293 winter

208 am

141 repeat

212 first

230 to

2 each

126 guide

131 column

252 single

204 remember

38 wild

247 major

42 coast

82 class

45 done

172 jump

49 sister

279 feel

242 check

250 fire

6 nine

151 indicate

60 parent

99 whole

159 her

53 the

89 temperature

132 design

164 big

12 skill

192 friend

188 hit

289 wait

296 instant

32 blow

181 about

236 chick

219 answer

173 man

180 material

234 current

223 think

256 print

282 nor

277 better

103 example

194 people

72 drink

107 gun

193 together

254 cost

96 require

197 or

215 people

218 planet

257 ease

8 ready

75 enough

77 sugar

105 deal

16 with

146 us

216 share

145 office

187 protect

52 low

248 thus

100 farm

70 oxygen

20 fire

122 force

232 select

217 paragraph

177 always

153 poem

31 chick

50 planet

62 fact

294 moment

261 term

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