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

Simply skip unwanted characters while calling len,

import os
characters=characters+ len([c for c in line if c not in (os.linesep, ' ')])

or sum the count,

characters=characters+ sum(1 for c in line if c not in (os.linesep, ' '))

or build a str from the wordlist and take len,

characters=characters+ len(''.join(wordlist))

or sum the characters in the wordlist. I think this is the fastest.

characters=characters+ sum(1 for word in wordlist for char in word)