Is the "Book title" challenge from "python core" "Exceptions & Files" bugged?

Question

I was told to provide the first letter of the book title and its length as its code.
I first tried it, including whitespaces when providing length as its code but it didnt work
then i tried it excluding whitespace only 2 solved.
its very difficult to pick which book titles to be coded with whitespace or not
maybe i m missing something any advice would be very helpful.

"""
#This the solution i presented

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

files=file.readlines()

for i in files:
bookcode=i[0]+(str(len(i.replace(" ",""))))
print(bookcode)

file.close()
"""
I apologise if i missed something.

Answer 1

readlines() will include the newline character '\n', that is at the end of all lines except the last line. Spaces should be counted in the length.
I.E.
"Harry Potter\n"
Will be a length of 12 with the newline character removed. Otherwise, you'll get 13, which is incorrect.

Answer 2

As ChaoticDawg , already mentioned new lines will be included, so you might want to check whether this line contains new space..

Something like that:

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

#your code goes here
for line in file:
if line[-1] == "\n":
print(line[0] + str(len(line)-1))
else:
print(line[0] + str(len(line)))

file.close()