[Tutor] character counter

[Emile van Sebille]

On 6/27/2009 6:42 AM julie said...
> Hello,
> 
> I need help with the following problem:
> 
> *Write a loop that reads each line of a file and counts the number of 
> lines that are read until the total length of the lines is 1,000 
> characters. Use a break statement to make sure that you don't continue 
> reading the file once the 1,000 characters are read.
> 
> I figured out how to open a file, count and print the lines, however I 
> cannot figure out or find online ...or anywhere else how to count 
> characters in a file. 

Maybe it helps to know that each line has a length you can determine using:

    linelen = len(line)

Emile



> This is what i have so far:
> 
> file = open("/Users/meitalamitai/Documents/Computer 
> Science/Python/Homework/Lorem_Ipsum.py")
> lines = 0
> for line in file:
>     lines=lines+1
> print '%r has %r lines' % ("Lorem_Ipsum.py", lines)
>    if char >= 1000:
>         break      *
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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