Program to count the number of articles in a given paragraph in Python

In the python programming article, we are going to learn

• program to count the number of articles in a given paragraph in python

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Program to count the number of articles in a given paragraph in Python

The text file (paragraph.txt) is as follows:

 

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The program is as follows:

 

# Owner : TutorialsInhand Author : Devjeet Roy

file = open("paragraph.txt","r")

article_count = 0

for i in file:
    i = i.lower()
    word_list = i.split(" ")
    for j in word_list:
        if j == "a" or j == "an" or j == "the":
            article_count += 1

print("The number of articles:",article_count)

The output is as follows:

 

PS C:\Users\DEVJEET\Desktop\tutorialsInHand> python code.py
The number of articles: 9

Few important tips about the program

1. We use the open() function to open() a file in Python. The "r" argument signifies that the file has been opened in the reading mode.

2. We convert the line which is a string to lowercase to avoid distinct conditions for articles in capital letters and small letters.

3. We break the string spacewise using the split() method.

4. We check for articles and increment the count.