Python Basics

Counting Lines, Words and Characters

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This segment gives a simple but fully working example of how to do something practical with Python - reading the contents of a file, and counting the number of lines, words and characters.

Keywords

  • Python basics
  • practical
  • open file
  • counting
  • sum function

About this video

Author(s)
Coen de Groot
First online
17 March 2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5831-6_21
Online ISBN
978-1-4842-5831-6
Publisher
Apress
Copyright information
© Coen de Groot 2020