I need help with the following programing exercise using Python 3.2 Assume that

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I need help with the following programing exercise using Python 3.2

Assume that a file containing a series of names ( as strings ) is named names.txt and exists on the computers disk. Design a program that displays the numbers of names that are stored in the file. ( Hint: Open the file and read every string stored on it. Each time you read a string, increment a counter variable. When you've read all the strings from the file, the counter variable will contain the number of names stored in the file.)

Explanation / Answer

#assumes names separated by space

counter=0

with open('names.txt') as a_file:

for a_line in a_file:

s=a_line.rstrip().split()

counter=counter+len(s)

print("Number of names: "+str(counter))

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