Know how many spaces in words

Question

I'm trying to know how many spaces in list for words

list = ["Hello       Hello Hello    Hello"]

How can I do it?

list = ["Hello       Hello Hello    Hello"]

def readSpace():
    print(list.space())

I'm trying like this :

thx.

Answer 1

You can use string.count method to count the number of occurrences of a character in a string:

>>> lst = ["Hello       Hello Hello    Hello", "exa   mple"]
>>> [x.count(" ") for x in lst]
[12, 3]

So, you can modify your method to:

def count_spaces(lst):
    return [x.count(" ") for x in lst]

Note that using list as variable name is a poor choice of variable name because it clashes with built-in list, and so you should avoid using it.

Answer 2

You can do this with a list comprehension and the count() string method . Something like:

>>> list = ["Hello       Hello Hello    Hello"]
>>> [x.count(" ") for x in list]
 [12]