Intermediate Python - 37.2 Practice help - “Book Club”

Question

Please help!

You are given a books.txt file, which includes book titles, each on a separate line.
Create a program to output how many words each title contains, in the following format:
Line 1: 3 words
Line 2: 5 words
...

Make sure to match the above mentioned format in the output.

No idea what to do next, please help, thanks!

Code:

with open("/usercode/files/books.txt") as f:

print(f.read())

Answer 1

Zach Z print(f"Line {i+1}: {len(j.split())} words")

Answer 2

Abhay just following up here. Thanks! Can you provide the full code?

Answer 3

for f in f.readlines():
#do something with each line.

remember each line ends with a newline character except the last line.

And f.readlines() is an array .

Answer 4

Zach Z you can strip out the newline character from each line except last one and count the len of line and do whatever else program asked for .

Btw you can do the following as well instead of f.readlines():

for line in f :

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And if you still can't understand then i will write the code with comment on what each line is doing.

Answer 5

with open("/usercode/files/books.txt") as f:
for i in f:
print(i[0]+str(len(i.rstrip()))) #rstrip will remove any whitespace (such as newline character) from the end of string.

Answer 6

Ok thanks Abhay , im a little lost with all of the back and forth. Can you put the complete code please?

Answer 7

with open("/usercode/files/books.txt") as f:
for i in f.readlines():
print(i[0]+str(len(i.rstrip())))

Abhay this didnt work. Can you help? Thanks!

Answer 8

Zach Z the code you gave me works fine as well.

Edit : Sorry looks like i have been helping you with a different question . Really sorry , i thought it was book titles from code coach . But now i see that it is 37.2 project from intermediate python. I don't know the original question so can't help with that unless you provide me details on what it is really asking for.

Answer 9

Bingo. Thanks Abhay !

Answer 10

Hi, for me this worked:

with open("/usercode/files/books.txt") as f:
#your code goes here
lines = f.readlines()
x=0
for i in lines:
x += 1
words = str(len(i.split()))
print("Line " + str(x) + ": " + words + " words")

Answer 11

with open("/usercode/files/books.txt") as f:
j=1
for line in f:
print(f"Line {j}: {len(line.split())} words")
j+=1

Answer 12

with open("/usercode/files/books.txt") as f:
#lines as list
listofnames = f.readlines()
#iterate through list and printing
for i in range(1, len(listofnames)+1):
x = len(list(listofnames[i-1].split()))
print("Line " + str(i) + ": " + str(x) + " words")

Answer 13

Thanks Abhay but still not sure whats next?

Answer 14

Really appreciate it Abhay . Ya sorry, still not sure. Can you share more?? Thanks!

Answer 15

JaScript can you please help here? Thanks!

Answer 16

Zach Z really sorry that i couldn't help but you could have just asked a new question and delete this one.

Answer 17

Zach Z that was complete code and it worked fine for me

Answer 18

No problem Abhay. The question and start to the code are above.

Answer 19

Zach Z
with open("/usercode/files/books.txt") as f:
for i,j in enumerate(f):
print(f"Line {i+1}:{len(j)} words")

The above code is including newline character as well . If it doesn't works then replace "len(j)" with "len(j.rstrip())" .

Answer 20

Hey Abhay neither is working. The second comes out with double digit numbers when the solution is single digit? Coming out to 12,16,19,18 words vs the answer of 2,3,3,4 words.