Counting single characters in a string is very useful. For instance calculating the GC content in a DNA sequence. Another example would be counting newline characters. The current code counts one ...

Counts the words from a given string in Python. Contribute to fopineda/Count-words-in-Python development by creating an account on GitHub.

Python's split() method breaks a string into a list of words based on whitespace. By counting the length of this list, you can easily find the number of words in the text.

However, those methods can cause problems if you read from a particularly large file. Python happily will read as much as it can into a huge string, potentially using all (or most) of the memory on ...