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Output features of a file based on its longest line

I want to write a program file_stats.py that when run on the command line, accepts a text file name as an argument and outputs the number of characters, words, lines, and the length (in characters) of the longest line in the file. Does anyone know the proper syntax to do something like this if I want the output to look like this:

Characters: 553
Words: 81
Lines: 21
Longest line: 38


2 Answers
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Assuming your file path is a string, something like this should work

file = "pathtofile.txt"

with open(file, "r") as f:
text = f.read()
lines = text.split("n")
longest_line = 0
for l in lines:
if len(l) > longest_line:
longest_line = len(l)
print("Longest line: ".format(longest_line))


len(lines)

.split(" ")

len(word)

The whole program

n_chars = 0
n_words = 0
n_lines = 0
longest_line = 0

with open('my_text_file') as f:
lines = f.readlines()
# Find the number of Lines
n_lines = len(lines)
# Find the Longest line
longest_line = max([len(line) for line in lines])
# Find the number of Words
words =
line_words = [line.split() for line in lines]
for line in line_words:
for word in line:
words.append(word)
n_words = len(words)
# Find the number of Characters
chars =
line_chars = [list(word) for word in words]
for line in line_chars:
for char in line:
chars.append(char)
n_chars = len(chars)

print("Characters: ", n_chars)
print("Words: ", n_words)
print("Lines: ", n_lines)
print("Longest: ", longest_line)


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