Python

Is There Another Way To Write This Word Count Program Other Than This Way???

Please support our Python advertiser: Programming Forums - DaniWeb Sister Site

Thread Solved

•

Join Date: Feb 2006

Posts: 43

Reputation: butterflyTee is an unknown quantity at this point

Solved Threads: 0

butterflyTee butterflyTee is offline

Offline

Light Poster

Is There Another Way To Write This Word Count Program Other Than This Way???

Feb 28th, 2006

 Help with Code Tags 
 Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
#The number of lines, and the number of words.
 
 
import string
 
 
def main():
data = raw_input("Enter the path and name of your ")
infile = file(data, 'r')
data_file = infile.read()
number_of_characters = len(data_file)
print "The number of characters in your text is", number_of_characters
 
list_of_words = string.split(data_file)
number_of_words = len(list_of_words)
print "The number of words in your text is", number_of_words
infile.close()
 
secondfile = file(data, 'r')
line_of_text = secondfile.readlines()
print line_of_text
number_of_lines = len(lines_of_text)
print "The number of lines in your text is" , number_of_lines
 
infile.close()
 
main()
#The number of lines, and the number of words.


import string


def main():
data = raw_input("Enter the path and name of your ")
infile = file(data, 'r')
data_file = infile.read()
number_of_characters = len(data_file)
print "The number of characters in your text is", number_of_characters

list_of_words = string.split(data_file)
number_of_words = len(list_of_words)
print "The number of words in your text is", number_of_words
infile.close()

secondfile = file(data, 'r')
line_of_text = secondfile.readlines()
print line_of_text
number_of_lines = len(lines_of_text)
print "The number of lines in your text is" , number_of_lines

infile.close()

main()

Last edited by vegaseat; Mar 2nd, 2006 at 2:41 am.

•

Join Date: Oct 2004

Posts: 4,109

Reputation: vegaseat is just really nice

Solved Threads: 943

vegaseat

Offline

DaniWeb's Hypocrite

Re: Is There Another Way To Write This Word Count Program Other Than This Way???

Mar 2nd, 2006

You are making progress on your own. Just some small corrections and it does work. From here you can improve the code.

 Help with Code Tags 
 Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
#The number of lines, and the number of words.
 
#import string  # not needed
 
def main():
    data = raw_input("Enter the path and name of your text file: ")
 
    infile = file(data, 'r')
    data_file = infile.read()
    infile.close()
 
    number_of_characters = len(data_file)
    print "The number of characters in your text is", number_of_characters
 
    list_of_words = data_file.split()
    number_of_words = len(list_of_words)
    print "The number of words in your text is", number_of_words
 
    secondfile = file(data, 'r')
    line_of_text = secondfile.readlines()
    secondfile.close()
    print line_of_text
    number_of_lines = len(line_of_text)
    print "The number of lines in your text is" , number_of_lines
 
 
main()
#The number of lines, and the number of words.

#import string  # not needed

def main():
    data = raw_input("Enter the path and name of your text file: ")
    
    infile = file(data, 'r')
    data_file = infile.read()
    infile.close()
    
    number_of_characters = len(data_file)
    print "The number of characters in your text is", number_of_characters
    
    list_of_words = data_file.split()
    number_of_words = len(list_of_words)
    print "The number of words in your text is", number_of_words
    
    secondfile = file(data, 'r')
    line_of_text = secondfile.readlines()
    secondfile.close()
    print line_of_text
    number_of_lines = len(line_of_text)
    print "The number of lines in your text is" , number_of_lines


main()

A somewhat more streamlined version with a properly formatted output ...

 Help with Code Tags 
 Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
# The number of lines, words and characters in a text file.
 
def main():
    filename = raw_input("Enter the path and name of your text file: ")
 
    infile = file(filename, 'r')
    lines_of_text = infile.readlines()
    infile.close()
 
    number_of_lines = len(lines_of_text)
 
    # join list of lines to form one string
    str1 = ''.join(lines_of_text)
    number_of_characters = len(str1)
 
    # split string into a list of words
    list_of_words = str1.split()
    number_of_words = len(list_of_words)
 
    # show the result
    print "%d %d %d %s" % (number_of_lines, number_of_words, number_of_characters, filename)
 
 
main()
# The number of lines, words and characters in a text file.

def main():
    filename = raw_input("Enter the path and name of your text file: ")
    
    infile = file(filename, 'r')
    lines_of_text = infile.readlines()
    infile.close()
    
    number_of_lines = len(lines_of_text)
    
    # join list of lines to form one string
    str1 = ''.join(lines_of_text)
    number_of_characters = len(str1)
    
    # split string into a list of words
    list_of_words = str1.split()
    number_of_words = len(list_of_words)
    
    # show the result
    print "%d %d %d %s" % (number_of_lines, number_of_words, number_of_characters, filename)


main()