How to count number of spaces in given string

Question

a = input("Enter the string paragraph:")
count = 0
for c in a:
    if c == " ":
        count += 1
        print("Number of spaces in a string:", count)

How do I count the number of spaces?

My question is simple, User has entered the set of character or string , Eg: I a m in the cof fe e sh op. So I wanted to count number of space in the full user input. So totally there are 8 space. and I also want to print at which all position the space is ... — Myscript, Nov 23 '15 at 06:16

score 32 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 23 '15 at 05:57

32

>>> a=input("Enter the value ")
Enter the value "My Testing String"
>>> a.count(' ')
2

answered Nov 23 '15 at 05:57

Mayur Koshti

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Thanks for the quick answer, – Myscript Nov 23 '15 at 06:00
Sorry I missed to mention that I wanted it more dynamic, Like my user input is " S t r i ng A b". So the total count is = 6 but I want something like ' Space is at position = 2,4,6,8,11 etc ..' – Myscript Nov 23 '15 at 06:00
Can you please provide your input method? – Mayur Koshti Nov 23 '15 at 06:03
input method is str, As I am executing in on windows 7 using IDLE 3.5 – Myscript Nov 23 '15 at 06:10
`print [n for n in xrange(len(a)) if a.find(' ', n) == n]` – Mayur Koshti Nov 23 '15 at 06:16
print(n for n in xrange(len(a))if a.find(' ',n)==n) NameError: name 'xrange' is not defined This is the error i am getting – Myscript Nov 23 '15 at 06:21
Use range instead of xrange. – Mayur Koshti Nov 23 '15 at 06:22
`range` in Python 3.x is `xrange` from Python 2.x. It was in fact Python 2.x's range that was removed. – Mayur Koshti Nov 23 '15 at 06:25
OPS!!!! this time " at 0x00000000035836D0>" it is showing this , but it is not an error I think it is indicating some value – Myscript Nov 23 '15 at 06:41
I am using 2.7.6 and I am not getting that – Mayur Koshti Nov 23 '15 at 06:43

How to count number of spaces in given string

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