Hello, I am very beginner to programming, I got task to Write a loop that reads each line of a file and counts the number of lines that are read until the total length of the lines is 1,000 characters. I have to read lines from files exactly upto 1000 characters.
Here is my code: I created file under /tmp/new.txt which has 100 lines and 2700 characters , I wrote code will read exactly 1000 characters and count lines upto those characters.But the problem is its reading entire line and not stopping excatly in 1000 characters. Can some one help what mistake i am doing here?. log = open('/tmp/new.txt','r') lines,char = 0,0 for line in log.readlines(): while char < 1000 : for ch in line : char += len(ch) lines += 1 print char , lines 1026 , 38 ---- Its counting entire line instead of character upto 1000 -- can some one point out what mistake am i doing here , where its not stopping at 1000 . I am reading only char by car My new.txt -- cotains content like this is my new number\n Can some one please help. I spent hours and hours to find issue but i am not able to figure out, Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Ramya
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