Question

Wrute a python program:
Count the number of 10-letter words in the file.
http://aops-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/python1/wordlist.txt

Answer 1

OK, what did you come up with?

Answer 2

wordFile = open("wordlist.txt",'r')
count = 1
for word in wordFile:
if len(word) == 10:
count += 1
print(count)
wordFile.close()

Answer 3

The answer doesn't come out right! I don't know why @e.mccormick

Answer 4

why does count start at 1 and not 0?

Answer 5

You need to trim spaces and white space characters that len() function counts.

basically replace
if len(word) == 10
with
if len(word.strip()) == 10

and you'd need to start count from 0 as @bibby mentioned :)

Answer 6

also, the more "pythonic" way of openning a file is using with open(..) as filehandler: construct. This way you don't need to close it too.