Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my code. I'm trying the Average Word counter in the code coach but i keep getting 4/5.

Question

import math

sentence = input()
num = 0

broken_sentence = tuple(sentence.split())

for i in broken_sentence:
num += len(i)

avg_length = num/len(broken_sentence)
print(math.ceil(avg_length))

Answer 1

ghali lawal , your code is working as expected. Make a use case with 3 words: 9 chars, 6 chars 9 chars. Together this is 24 chars. Divide it by 3 and you will get an average length of 8.

Answer 2

NotAPythonNinja i think Lothar already knew that, but he just wanted to explain the algorithm beside the punctuation problem.👍

Answer 3

Thank you guys. It was counting punctuation as words. Used the isalpha() to correct that. I really appreciate

Answer 4

Are you referring to this problem ? https://www.sololearn.com/coach/73?ref=app
If yes, then you need to take into consideration if the word contains a punctuation or not like '?,";', which doesn't count into the word length.