Counting lines words and characters within a text file using Python

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I m having a bit of a rough time laying out how I would count certain elements within a text file using Python  I m a few months into Python and I m familiar with the following functions     raw input open split len print rsplit     Here s my code so far   fname    feed txt  fname   open  feed txt    r    num lines   0 num words   0 num chars   0  for line in feed      lines   line split   n     At this point I m not sure what to do next  I feel the most logical way to approach it would be to first count the lines  count the words within each line  and then count the number of characters within each word  But one of the issues I ran into was trying to perform all of the necessary functions at once  without having to re-open the file to perform each function seperately

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file  IO   input   nEnter file name here to analize with path      with open file  IO   r   as f      data   f read       line   data splitlines       words   data split       spaces   data split          charc    len data  - len spaces        print   n Line number      len line     n Words number      len words     n Spaces      len spaces     n Charecters       len data -len spaces      I tried this code  amp  it works as expected

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Try this   fname    feed txt   num lines   0 num words   0 num chars   0  with open fname   r   as f      for line in f          words   line split            num lines    1         num words    len words          num chars    len line    Back to your code   fname    feed txt  fname   open  feed txt    r     what s the point of this  fname is a string first and then a file object  You don t really use the string defined in the first line and you should use one variable for one thing only  either a string or a file object   for line in feed      lines   line split   n     line is one line from the file  It does not make sense to split   n   it

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Functions that might be helpful    open  file   read   which reads the contents of the whole file at once  string  splitlines   which separates lines from each other  and discards empty lines    By using len   and those functions you could accomplish what you re doing

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fname    feed txt  feed   open fname   r    num lines   len feed splitlines    num words   0 num chars   0  for line in lines      num words    len line split

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One of the way I like is this one   but may be good for small files  with open fileName  r   as content file      content   content file read       lineCount   len re split   n  content       words   re split   W   content lower      To count words  there is two way  if you don t care about repetition you can just do   words count   len words    if you want the counts of each word you can just do   import collections words count   collections Counter words   Count the occurrence of each word

[python] Counting lines, words, and characters within a text file using Python

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