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The problem is i have to print out the average length of words in each lines in a txt documents.

My code so far: i know how to count the number in each line and how many words in each line, but have no idea how to start a average length of words.

count=0
with open('win95coolest.txt') as book:
    for lines in book:
        count+=1
        print(count,(len(lines.split())), lines)

What is the average of 3, 4, 5? How did you do that?

• create another variable at start to keep count of total number of words total_words = 0
  
• strip line feeds from lines before split,
  lines = lines.strip()
  
• split lines into slines
  Use a new name saving original for printing
  
• calculate line length of split line
  
• add line length to total_words
  
• print line number, length and lines
  
• Continue loop
  
• after loop (not part of loop) calculate and print average line length