count words in a text file python code example

Example 1: Python program that takes a text file as input and returns the number of words of a given text file

with open('file1.txt','r+') as f:
	lines=f.read()
	words=lines.split()
	print(len(words))

Example 2: Python program that takes a text file as input and returns the number of words of a given text file

with open('file1.txt','r+') as f:
	numw=0
	for line in f:
		words= line.split()
		print(words)
		numw += len(words)
	print(numw)