Average word length: python

Question

I think there is something wrong with the test case
We need to find average length of words in sentence, removing punctuation.
For the sentence: 'The longest word in the dictionary is...'
No of letters is: 31
No. Of words: 7
Then average will be 4.4
If round off, then 4
And thats the output of my code, but the expected output is 5. Please correct me if i m going wrong
https://sololearn.com/compiler-playground/cabF63QU6OO4/?ref=app

Answer 1

The specific task in the code challenge section asks you to "round up to the next integer".
Use the ceil() function instead of round() and your code will be fine.

Answer 2

Tibor Santa Yeah, it worked! Thank you 😊

Answer 3

Wilbur Jaywright I couldnt think of any other way, I need to work on my problem solving skills,
And yeah, i knew that True will be returned, but wasn't sure, thanks for mentioning 😊

Answer 4

I feel like this code is unneccesarily complicated by counting letters in individual words one at a time when it could be counting them from the whole sentence at once. Remove that, and maybe you’ll see the problem.

Side note, there is no reason to ever use “== True” in your code. True is already the output of a test condition, so it’s completely redundant.