countint words from an input string

[Simon Brunning]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:58:06 +0100, Øystein Western <info at frengky.no> wrote:
> Try to write som code that will get an input string from the user. Futher
> more, I'd like to have the program to count all the word the user has
> written.
> 
> Startet out like this:
> 
> /-------------
> s = raw_input("Write a text line")
> print s.split()
> /----------------
> 
> How can I count the words in the split function.

print 'You've entered', len(s.split()), 'words.'

BTW, though newbie questions are quite welcome here, you might find it
beneficial to run through the Python tutorial (at
http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html and included in the standard
distribution), and to join the tutor mailing list (at
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor/).

-- 
Cheers,
Simon B,
simon at brunningonline.net,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/