Script for counting number of words, lines and characters

Author: OmkarPathak

Scripts/P08_CountNumberOfWords.py

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+# Author: OMKAR PATHAK
+# This script helps to count number of words, number of lines and number of characters from a file
+
+def countWords(fileName):
+    numwords = 0
+    numchars = 0
+    numlines = 0
+
+    with open(fileName, 'r') as file:
+        for line in file:
+            wordlist = line.split()
+            numlines += 1
+            numwords += len(wordlist)
+            numchars += len(line)
+
+    print ("Words: ", numwords)
+    print ("Lines: ", numlines)
+    print ("Characters: ", numchars)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    countWords('P07_ScriptToSendMail.py')
+
+    # OUTPUT:
+    # Words:  55
+    # Lines:  14
+    # Characters:  554