Counting lines, words, and characters within a text file using Python
Functions that might be helpful:
open("file").read()
which reads the contents of the whole file at once'string'.splitlines()
which separates lines from each other (and discards empty lines)
By using len() and those functions you could accomplish what you're doing.
fname = "feed.txt"
feed = open(fname, 'r')
num_lines = len(feed.splitlines())
num_words = 0
num_chars = 0
for line in lines:
num_words += len(line.split())
Try this:
fname = "feed.txt"
num_lines = 0
num_words = 0
num_chars = 0
with open(fname, 'r') as f:
for line in f:
words = line.split()
num_lines += 1
num_words += len(words)
num_chars += len(line)
Back to your code:
fname = "feed.txt"
fname = open('feed.txt', 'r')
what's the point of this? fname
is a string first and then a file object. You don't really use the string defined in the first line and you should use one variable for one thing only: either a string or a file object.
for line in feed:
lines = line.split('\n')
line
is one line from the file. It does not make sense to split('\n')
it.