Question

Main Objective: Create a function collect_statistics to count the number of words and mean length of words in each sentence

This is my code so far but I am struggling to join the two functions together. I would appreciate the help!

The sentence given as an example is : "Haven't you eaten 8 oranges today?" the mean length of this sentence is 4.5 for reference.

Each sentence needs to be split up if given multiple sentences, assuming each sentence ends with a period.

Thank you!

My code so far:

def word_length_list(text):

    text = text.replace('--',' ')

    for p in string.punctuation + "‘’”“":

        text = text.replace(p,'')

    text = text.lower()

    words = text.split()

    word_length = []

    for i in words:

        count = 0

        for j in i:

            count = count + 1

        word_length.append(count)

    return(word_length)

testing1 = word_length_list("Haven't you eaten 8 oranges today?")

def collect_statistics(pandp):

    

    for i in ["!","?"]:

        if i in pandp:

            pandp = pandp.replace(i,".")

    

    pandp = pandp.split(".")

    pandp = [sentence.split() for sentence in pandp]

    pandp = [len(sentence) for sentence in pandp]

    finalpandp = len(pandp)

    return(finalpandp)

collect_statistics(testing1)

Answer 1

The code with removed error is given below.

The problem was in calling funtion collect_statistics. There parameter passed was testing1 which is not a string, rather the list of frequencies returned by the word_len_list. And we also needed to remove a few incorrect loops.

def word_length_list(text):
    text = text.replace('--',' ')
    for p in "‘’”“":
        text = text.replace(p,'')
    text = text.lower()
    words = text.split()
    word_length = []
    for i in words:
        count = 0
        for j in i:
            count = count + 1
        word_length.append(count)
    return(word_length)
    
testing1 = word_length_list("Haven't you eaten 8 oranges today?")
print(testing1)

def collect_statistics(pandp):
    for i in ["!","?"]:
            pandp = pandp.replace(i,".")
            
    pandp = pandp.split(".")
    pandp = [sentence.split() for sentence in pandp]
    pandp = [len(sentence) for sentence in pandp]
    finalpandp = len(pandp)
    return(finalpandp)
    
res = collect_statistics("Haven't you eaten 8 oranges today?")
print(res)