10.11) Challenge 28 - Count Words And Lines

The file TheTyger_WilliamBlake.txt contains the poem The Tyger by William Blake.

1. Write a program to count the numbers of lines and the number of words in the poem. There are a lot of different ways to do this.

Advanced:

• Only count the poem itself, not the title and author name
• Don’t count blank lines
• Don’t count punctuation

 

You can use different ways of reading in the file, but you’ll also have to find different ways of counting the words and lines.

Solution: count_words_lines.py

2. Write the poem in a file, with each line preceded by the number of words on that line.

Solution: count_words_lines_part2.py

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