following scenario: I want to display the length of a random word selected from a simple .txt list like this:
composer
circulation
fashionable
prejudice
progress
salesperson
disappoint
I used the following code to display one of these words from the list:
random_word_generator = open("random_words.txt", "r")
random_words = list(random_word_generator)
secret_word = random.choice(random_words)
however, whenever I want to print the length of the word by using:
print("My secret word is " + str(len(secret_word)))
It shows the length of the word - 1 character
like:
progress --> should be 8 letters, but python displays 7...
Do you know how this issue could be solved?
Btw: there are no spaces whatsoever in my .txt file
Kind Regards and many thanks in advance
You should mention the language you're using in the title and the tags.
To your question: Can you please paste the full code you're using? I tried your example, and it displays the correct length of each word (+ 1 for the newline character, which you could remove by calling .strip()), so I'm guessing you do something different.
random_word_generator = open("random_words.txt", "r")
random_words = list(random_word_generator) # ['composer\n', 'circulation\n', 'fashionable\n', 'prejudice\n', 'progress\n', 'salesperson\n', 'disappoint\n']
secret_word = random.choice(random_words) # "progress\n"
print("My secret word is " + str(len(secret_word))) # "My secret word is 9"
print("My secret word w/o newline is " + str(len(secret_word.strip()))) # "My secret word w/o newline is 8"