Average Words Length Python

Sergiu Panaite not to worry. It happens. Happy coding.

Can you Pls post the code to understand it..?

Sergiu Panaite You are using strip() function ,not split() function. strip() returns a string with removing leading and trailing spaces. split() returns a list with splitting into words..

Jayakrishna🇮🇳 ha ha yeah that would be it.

can’t belive I was that blind, I always had impression I was writing split but was actually using strip. I feel embarassed ☹️. Thanks guys

Sergiu Panaite not to worry.. 👍👍

It should return a list of strings.

Are you calling split() with an argument of " "?

E.g. this simple program splits a sentence into a list of words: https://code.sololearn.com/cCqt749d8X6O/?ref=app

Actually, I learnt from David Ashton and Louis that split() without arguments does a better job at separating out the strings

Thanks Sonic , your code returns a list indeed, mine still returns a string. I’ve added the code in my original description.

Sergiu Panaite can you share a link to your code?

a = input() x=(len(a)-a.count(" ")-a.count(".")-a.count(",")-a.count("?"))/(a.count(" ")+1) print(int(x)+(x>x//1)) #Hope this code is working fine; did it in a hurry, might have bugs.

Here is the code text = input() spl = text.split() print(spl) no_char = len(text) no_elment=len(spl) print (no_char) print (no_elment) print (20/3) #print ("%.2f" % (no_char/no_elment) print("%.2f" % round((no_char/no_elment), 2)) but the output is coming as 6.666666666666667 instead of 6.0

i use text = input() word = text.split() only_alpha = text.replace(" ", "") print(len(only_alpha) / len(word))