Average Word Length

Question

Please whats wrong with my code

text = input()
letter = len(text)
word = len(text.split())
average = letter/word
print(average)

I will appreciate you all effort

Answer 1

Destiny Simon , Simon Sauter ,

if we are talking about *python for datastructures* code coach exercise no. 13:

we do not need to remove punctuation, this is (no longer) mentioned in the task description
we can use this:

▪︎take input string
▪︎split input string (this will result in getting a list that we name *word*)
▪︎use string method replace(...) to remove all spaces from variable *text*
▪︎get length of variable text (=number of characters without spaces)
▪︎calculate letter/ word
▪︎output result using print()

Answer 2

len(text) counts spaces and punctuation marks as letters.

Answer 3

Simon Sauter thanks

Answer 4

Simon Sauter but its not still working

Answer 5

Lothar thanks but please can you give me an example with some line of code