[Tutor] counting in a file

[Thomi Richards]

> I'm using this method because readlines()
> produces an unacceptable list as my lines are long.

I'm pretty sure you could do this: (you are trying to count the number
of _words_ ina  file, right?

infile = open('infile.txt')

Nlines = 0
for line in infile.read():
	Nlines+= len(string.strip(line))

print 'there are %d words in this file) % (Nlines)

i haven't tried this out, but thats roughly how I would do it. then
again, I'm still learning python, So there is probably a _much_ simpler
way to do this :-)

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Thomi Richards,
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