How do I fix this code?

Question

This is from a code exercise here on Sololearn under File Handling. It's supposed to:

1. Open and read a file containing a list of book titles.

2. Assign each book a special code based on the book title and number of characters (including spaces). Eg: Harry Potter would be assigned H12.

3. Close the file.

https://code.sololearn.com/cMP0zlyHV9i0/?ref=app

Answer 1

You probably don't have to set it to uppercase.
Here's a quick breakdown.

file = open("/usercode/files/books.txt", "r")

# A lot is wrong with this code block
#is for user input not file input
#book_title0 = input([])
#book_title1 = book_title0.upper()
#print(book_title1[0], len(book_title1))
for line in file.readlines():
print(line)
print(line[0])
#minus the newline character
#might have been thinking of another language been doing a few refreshers.
print(str(len(line)-1))
print(line[0]+str(len(line)-1))
#so yeah direct replace fixes that.
# print(str(len(line.replace("/n",""))))
#print(line[0]+str(len(line.replace("/n",""))))

file.close()

Answer 2

Remember to only output exactly what was asked for by the task. Additional and unnecessary outputs will fail you because you are considered not following the instructions.

Answer 3

morl ,

are you aware that the last line of a text file does not contain a `new-line` character? if not, the length of the last line will not be calculated properly.

Answer 4

Kamdili Ife Darachukwu ,

what you can do is to use `rstrip()` method. this will remove all trailing whitespaces from a string. `new-line sequence` is also removed. apply it to each line you are reading from the file.

Answer 5

morl That explains a lot. I already got it to work but the last line is one character short.

Any ideas on how I could fix that? Thank you.