[Tutor] character counter

[Christian Witts]

julie wrote:
> 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. 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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Depends what you classify as a character.  If it is any character then 
what Emile said about len(line) will be fine, if it is to exclude 
new-line characters then you will need to strip them off and then do a 
length or if it is just printable characters then maybe look at string 
translation tables and the string.replace methods to cull out what you 
do not need.

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Kind Regards,
Christian Witts