Question

Create a function called countWords(string):

That will count words in given string by user.

Use Python 3.6

If user inputs "Mary had a little lamb" it should return 5

Answer 1

#Defing the countWord function

def countWord(stri):

    count=1

    #Iterating over string

    for letter in stri:

        #Counting the white spaces for number of words

        if letter == ' ':

            count = count+1

    return count

#Asking the user to input sentence

stri= input("Enter your sentence: ")

#caliing the countWord function to count the number of words

count= countWord(stri)

#printing the number of words in a sentence

print ("\nWord Count in the sentence: "+str(count))

Output: