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

taking the input as file name i.e files.txt from the input parameter and then counting the total number of characters in the file and save to the variable char

fname = input("Enter the name of the file:")
infile = open(fname, 'r')                   # connection of the file
lines = 0
words = 0
char = 0                                    # init as zero integer
for line in infile:
    wordslist = line.split()                # splitting line to word
    lines = lines + 1                       # counter up the word
    words = words + len(wordslist)          # splitting word to charac
    char = char + len(line)                 # counter up the character

print("lines are: " + str(lines))
print("words are: " + str(words))
print("chars are: " + str(char))            # printing beautify