Check out regular expressions in the re module.

Have you seen "Dive into Python" by Mark Pilgrim ? It's a fine resource and has an excellent section on XML processing. It's available online too..

When I start kleansweep it warns me that I must run it as root to delete all files and no - I never run things as root.
I've been playing around with another way of achieving this.

I created a...

I've looked at kleansweep and it doesn't prompt me for a root password. However I believe this is probably done not by kleansweep but by KDE. In the KDE menu editor (Under System) you can add or edit...

Sorry for not getting back sooner but it seems other kind folks in the forum have answered already.
It's hard to gauge someones level of experience when answering a question but I only outlined the...

Assuming the question does not want a count of unique words/characters this should do it:

open the file for reading
number of words,characters, lines = 0
while a line can be read from the file ...

Nice bit of Python !!

word = list("movie")