Say I have a string = "Nobody will give me pancakes anymore"
I want to count each word in the string. So I do string.split() to get a list in order to get ['Nobody', 'will', 'give', 'me', 'pancakes', 'anymore'].
But when I want to know the length of 'Nobody' by inputing len(string[0]) it only gives me 1, because it thinks that the 0th element is just 'N' and not 'Nobody'.
What do I have to do to ensure I can find the length of the whole word, rather than that single element?
You took the first letter of string[0], ignoring the result of the string.split() call.
Store the split result; that's a list with individual words:
words = string.split()
first_worth_length = len(words[0])
Demo:
>>> string = "Nobody will give me pancakes anymore"
>>> words = string.split()
>>> words[0]
'Nobody'
>>> len(words[0])
6