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jackrussel83
jackrussel83

Reputation: 41

Trying to count the number of words from user input

I'm currently trying to count the amount of words in a sentence entered by the user and count the amount of times the word 'Python' is used in the sentence and print both the results at the end. I'm trying to force the sentence into lowercase but I'm currently unsure how to integrate it into the code. As of now it counts the amount of times 'Python' was entered but not 'python' and I need both to be registered at once.

sentence = input(str("Please enter a sentence with your thoughts on Python:"))
listOfWords = len(sentence.split())
howManyPython = sentence.count (str("Python" or "python"))
print("You said Python " + str(howManyPython) + " times!")
print("There was " + str(listOfWords), "words in your sentence")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1946

Answers (2)

Maurice Meyer
Maurice Meyer

Reputation: 18136

You can convert to whole input string to lowercase, to count the word 'Python':

sentence = 'Python python python3000 py'
listOfWords = len(sentence.split())
howManyPython = sentence.lower().count("python")  # convert to lowercase
print("You said Python " + str(howManyPython) + " times!")
print("There was " + str(listOfWords) + " words in your sentence")

Returns:

You said Python 3 times!
There was 4 words in your sentence

Upvotes: 0

Sufiyan Ghori
Sufiyan Ghori

Reputation: 18763

Convert entire input sentence to lower case first,

sentence = input(str("Please enter a sentence with your thoughts on Python:"))
howManyPython = sentence.lower().count ("python")
listOfWords = len(sentence.split())
print("You said Python " + str(howManyPython) + " times!")
print("There was " + str(listOfWords), "words in your sentence")

# output
Please enter a sentence with your thoughts on Python:python 123 Python Python
You said Python 3 times!
There was 4 words in your sentence

Upvotes: 2

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