Find the number of characters in a file using Python

Question

Here is the question:

I have a file with these words:

hey how are you
I am fine and you
Yes I am fine

And it is asked to find the numbe

Answer 1

A more Pythonic solution than the others:

with open('foo.txt') as f:
  text = f.read().splitlines() # list of lines

lines = len(text) # length of the list = number of lines
words = sum(len(line.split()) for line in text) # split each line on spaces, sum up the lengths of the lists of words
characters = sum(len(line) for line in text) # sum up the length of each line

print(lines)
print(words)
print(characters)

The other answers here are manually doing what str.splitlines() does. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel.