Moving around in a string

[Cousin Stanley]

| words_within = sentence.split()
|
| word_count = 0 
|
| for i in words_within:
|     word_count = word_count+1
|
| print "There are", word_count, "words."

Ryan .... 

    You might also find the  len()  builtin function useful
    to provide the length of a list or string ....

sentence   = 'yo ho ho and a bottle of rum'
words      = sentence.split()
word_count = len( words )

print word_count

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Cousin Stanley
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona