julie wrote:
Hello,
I need help with the following problem:
*Write a loop that reads each line of a file and counts the number of
lines that are read until the total length of the lines is 1,000
characters. Use a break statement to make sure that you don't continue
reading the file once the 1,000 characters are read.
I figured out how to open a file, count and print the lines, however I
cannot figure out or find online ...or anywhere else how to count
characters in a file. This is what i have so far:
file = open("/Users/meitalamitai/Documents/Computer
Science/Python/Homework/Lorem_Ipsum.py")
lines = 0
for line in file:
lines=lines+1
print '%r has %r lines' % ("Lorem_Ipsum.py", lines)
if char >= 1000:
break *
Thanks!
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Depends what you classify as a character. If it is any character then
what Emile said about len(line) will be fine, if it is to exclude
new-line characters then you will need to strip them off and then do a
length or if it is just printable characters then maybe look at string
translation tables and the string.replace methods to cull out what you
do not need.
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Christian Witts
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