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(Jul-17-2018, 04:32 PM)micseydel Wrote: I think perfringo has the right idea, but that wouldn't capture double-quotes ("). I would suggest a whitelist rather than a blacklist
from string import letters
# [...]
letter_count = len(char for char in chars if char in letters)

Whitelisting is definitely way to go! It is much better to allow specific set of letters instead of trying to guess what clever symbols users might enter.

It seems to me, that there is no 'letters' in string.py. I get ImportError: cannot import 'letters' from 'string'. Shouldn't it be:
from string import ascii_letters?
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average word length - by syn09001 - Jul-17-2018, 03:41 AM
RE: average word length - by micseydel - Jul-17-2018, 04:47 AM
RE: average word length - by perfringo - Jul-17-2018, 07:24 AM
RE: average word length - by micseydel - Jul-17-2018, 04:32 PM
RE: average word length - by perfringo - Jul-18-2018, 06:14 AM
RE: average word length - by syn09001 - Jul-17-2018, 09:04 PM
RE: average word length - by micseydel - Jul-18-2018, 08:26 PM

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