Question

Many word processing programs allow the user to view properties of the text contained therein. For this problem, your task is to write a Python function that reads a text file and computes the total number of words and characters in the file.

The function has been started for you in the file wordcount.py. Modify this code as indicated and include the file in your homework submission.

Print (do not return any outputs) the statistics so that is looks identical to the sample below:

Processing file: sample.txt

Characters: 445

Words: 69

NOTE: For reference, the required modifications can be done in as little as 8-10 lines of code.

Answer 1

#reading file name from user
name=input("Enter file name : ")
#opening file
f1= open(name, "r")
wordCount=0
charCount=0;
for x in f1:
charCount=charCount+len(x)
wordCount=wordCount+len(x.split(" "))
print("Processing file: ",name)
print("Characters : ",charCount)
print("Words :", wordCount)