How to count the number of letters in a string without the spaces?

Question

This is my solution resulting in an error. Returns 0

PS: I\'d still love a fix to my code :)

from collections import Counter
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Answer 1

def count_letters(word):
    return len(word) - word.count(' ')

Alternatively, if you have multiple letters to ignore, you could filter the string:

def count_letters(word):
    BAD_LETTERS = " "
    return len([letter for letter in word if letter not in BAD_LETTERS])