Python | Program to count the number of words in a string
split() and len() method is used to get the number of words in a string. The split() method split a string into a list where each word is a list item and the len() method returns the number of items in a list.
# initializing string
sentence = "Program to count the number of words in a sentence"
# printing original string
print ("Original string: " + sentence)
# count words in string
count = len(sentence.split())
# printing result
print ("Number of words in the string are: " + str(count))
Output:
Original string: Program to count the number of words in a sentence Number of words in the string are: 10
