Letter frequency

Question

Why my solution of "Average Word Length" task is wrong?

text = input()
new_text = text.split()
number_of_signs = len(new_text)
total = int((len(text)/len(new_text)))
answer = print(total)

Answer 1

the most obvious way to do the second point is using a for loop over the list... and inside it add each items (words) length to number_of_signs...

Answer 2

because you're not doing it the right way...

you must add each words length in the 'new_text' list, and use that sum (wich doesn't count spaces of 'text' string) instead of len(text) ;)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I do really not know how to do it. Could You give me some tips, please? Thank You very much ina advance!

Answer 5

you should:

1) initialize the number_of_signs (letters) variable to zero
2) iterate the 'new_text' list and add each items (words) length to the number_of_signs variable
3) then you can compute the average by dividing the number_of_signs by the number of words (len(new_text))

Answer 6

How can I do the second point?