How to count the number of words in a sentence, ignoring numbers, punctuation and whitespace?

Question

How would I go about counting the words in a sentence? I\'m using Python.

For example, I might have the string:

string = \"I     am having  a   very         


        

Answer 1

How about using a simple loop to count the occurrences of number of spaces!?

txt = "Just an example here move along" 
count = 1
for i in txt:
if i == " ":
   count += 1
print(count)