Can you hell me with this problem?

Question

You have been asked to make a special book categorization program, which assigns each book a special code based on its title.
The code is equal to the first letter of the book, followed by the number of characters in the title.
For example, for the book "Harry Potter", the code would be: H12, as it contains 12 characters (including the space).

You are provided a books.txt file, which includes the book titles, each one written on a separate line.
Read the title one by one and output the code for each book on a separate line.

For example, if the books.txt file contains:
Some book
Another book

Your program should output:
S9
A12
Recall the readlines() method, which returns a list containing the lines of the file.
Also, remember that all lines, except the last one, contain a \n at the end, which should not be included in the character count.

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

#your code goes here

file.close()

Answer 1

Step 1: Objective

You are looking to print out the first element + the length of the characters (spaces included).
x[0] + str(len(x)). Turn num into string
"H" + "12"

Step 2: Identify Problem

When you import a file, you read the text file using file.read() it appears that file is imported as a string. You can test this:
print(type(file.read()))

Now you see the string has unwanted \n inside the string. If you read about file handling, you would know that every enter button in the text file creates a "\n" when you import

Step 3: Solve Problem

Your options are limited but very easy. Lets use string split method. Because our file is a string we want to use a string function. Let's first name our string
text = file.read()

Now we split string.
my_list = text.split("\n")

Split turns str to list and removes unwanted characters as separator. Test by printing my_list

Step 4: Complete Objective

for i in my_list:
print(i[0] + str(len(i)))

Done.

Read on string.replace() for more ways to solve problem!

Answer 2

Your first step should be to break down the big problem into smaller components. What information do you have? How can you manipulate it to get the result you want? What are the elements you want to extract or exclude?

If you have a specific question about process, please ask that, but this is the general advice that will help with this and any other problem.

Answer 3

This formula helped me and will help you!

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