i need help asap

[briggsie2006]

I need to write a program called wc.py. It promts the user to input a filename and outputs the number of lines, words, and, characters in the file. I really need help on this because I don't know what to do. email me at briggsie2006@ho tmail.com asap if you can help me out.

[bartonc]

### We'll use Tk to make a window with a button so that we can get
### a file dialog box. You can add some place to display the results. It's
### probably a lot for starting out, but seeing this stuff now will
### give you a big head start!

import Tkinter as Tk
import tkFileDialog

### Use tkFileDialog.askopenfilename() to get the file name
### because it's just too hard for people to type in file names

def DoEverything():
    # initialize some variable for your counters
    nLines = 0
    nWords = 0
    # get the file name
    fileName = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()

    # Once you have the name, call built-in open(); 'r' is for read mode.
    theFileObject = open(fileName, 'r')
    # File objects are of a class that support itteration, so you use a for loop
    # to get a string object which is a copy of the line in the file
    # I always call this variable 'line'
    for line in theFileObject:
        nLines += 1     # add one to the counter each time through the loop
        listOfWords = line.split()  # string objects have lots of "methods"
        print listOfWords    # Use print to see what your program is doing
        wordCount = len(listOfWords)    # Use extra variable to simplify your code
        print wordCount
        nWords += wordCount # Add this lines word count to nWords

    # There are simpler ways to print, but format strings are a really good thing to learn
    print "%s has %d lines and %d words" %(fileName, nLines, nWords)
    # although Python will close the file if you forget, it's always good to remember
    theFileObject.close()
    

if __name__ == "__main__":

    ### This is all it takes to start a Graphical User Interface with Tkinter!

    root = Tk.Tk()
    mainFrame = Tk.Frame(root)
    mainFrame.pack()
    fdButton = Tk.Button(mainFrame, text="File Dialog", command=DoEverything)
    fdButton.pack()

    
    root.mainloop()

[briggsie2006]

what about chacters?

[briggsie2006]

what about characters?

[bartonc]

what about characters?

Here's a big hint:

You'll need one more counter variable
Use a for loop inside the main loop
list objects (in this case listOfWords) are itterators, so use

for item in listOfWords:
    # use len() to count characters
    # accumulate total count

I'll bet you get it!
Post what you come up with...