Function

Question

Hi, I have a question about len function.

Phrase = "Giraffe Academy"
Print(len(phrase))

It prints 15 and actually its 14 letters there
Why please?

Answer 1

whitespace is also a character

Answer 2

Hi.

White space gets counted too. That should be 15th if I counted correctly.

Cheers. C

Answer 3

If there is a need to count characters without spaces you can try this:

phrase = "Giraffe Academy"
print(len(phrase)) # count with space
print(len([i for i in phrase if not i.isspace()])) # count without space

Answer 4

Wow, okay. Thanks