In this tutorial we are going to learn about couting the Number of Blank Spaces in a Text File in Python.

Python Program to Count the Number of Blank Spaces in a Text File

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
k = 0
 
with open(fname, 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        words = line.split()
        for i in words:
            for letter in i:
                if(letter.isspace):
                    k=k+1
print("Occurrences of blank spaces:")
print(k)

Explanation

1. User must enter a file name.
2. The file is opened using the open() function in the read mode.
3. A for loop is used to read through each line in the file.
4. Each line is split into a list of words using split().
5. A for loop is used to traverse through the words list and another for loop is used -to traverse through the letters in the word.
6. If the letter iterated over is a space, the letter count is incremented.
7. The final count of occurrences of blank spaces is printed.