[Tutor] character counter

[julie]

Hello,

I need help with the following problem:

*Write a loop that reads each line of a file and counts the number of lines
that are read until the total length of the lines is 1,000 characters. Use a
break statement to make sure that you don't continue reading the file once
the 1,000 characters are read.

I figured out how to open a file, count and print the lines, however I
cannot figure out or find online ...or anywhere else how to count characters
in a file. This is what i have so far:

file = open("/Users/meitalamitai/Documents/Computer
Science/Python/Homework/Lorem_Ipsum.py")
lines = 0
for line in file:
    lines=lines+1
print '%r has %r lines' % ("Lorem_Ipsum.py", lines)
   if char >= 1000:
        break      *

Thanks!
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