[Tutor] Lance E Sloan"help"

[S A]

Ok. I'm not Lance , but I'll give it a shot:
>
># line/word counter  
>
>def getStuff(file):
>    info = open(file, 'r')
>    infolines = info.readlines()
>    linenum = 1
>    for line in infolines:
>        words = line.split(' ')
>        print "Line %d contains %d words" % (linenum, len(words))
>        linenum += 1
>
>file = raw_input("Enter the filename: ")
>getStuff(file)
>
>
>
>Enter file name:
>> testfile.txt
>
>
>LINE#  WORDS
>--------------------
>1      20 words
>2      25 words
>3      30 words
>4      25 words
>--------------------
>Summary:
>4 lines, 100 words, Avg: 25 words/line

First let's look at why your for loop does not work:

    1. import string
    2. change the for loop to the following:

>>> for lines in infolines:
...     word = string.split(lines)
...     print "Line %d contains %d words" % (linenum, len(word))
...     linenum += 1
... 
Line 1 contains 8 words
Line 2 contains 0 words
Line 3 contains 1 words
Line 4 contains 0 words
Line 5 contains 13 words
Line 6 contains 5 words
Line 7 contains 1 words
Line 8 contains 7 words
Line 9 contains 0 words
Line 10 contains 2 words
Line 11 contains 0 words

Now the rest is formatting your print and doing some math on lines and words.

Make sure you place the print statement for:
LINE#  WORDS
--------------------

--------------------
Summary:
4 lines, 100 words, Avg: 25 words/line

Outside of the iteration. And all of the other data can be printed inside the for loop.

Hope this helps some.
Good Luck.

SA




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