Why doesn’t my code work?

Question

Python core, problem 51, for so reason it works, yet the last line doesn’t.

Code:

file = open("/usercode/files/books.txt", "r")

list = file.readlines()

listlen = len(list)

items = ""

for i in list:
itemlen = len(i) - 1
item = i[0]
items += str(item)+str(itemlen)+"\n"

file.close()

print (items)

Answer 1

You have not handled the info in the yellow box

Recall the readlines() method, which returns a list containing the lines of the file.
Also, remember that all lines, except the last one, contain a \n at the end, which should not be included in the character count.

Answer 2

Gabriel
Only the last item in the list will contain the correct length, all other items in the list have '\n' appended, which is counted as a character.

So you must write a code which can identify the difference between all items except the last item.

Answer 3

Rik Wittkopp
1) thank you!
2) thank you but thats not my question, the books ate all one ahead, considering the method of counting python uses, but the last book is the nirmal length, so when I subtract from the variable itemlen, I get it wrong