im trying to convert a program that takes the users string input and defines how many lowercase, uppercase, digits, and characters the string has. Into a program that reads a text file and outputs lower/uppercase/digits/and characters. I have most of the program done as fas as print outputs but I cant figure out why my .readlines() isnt reading every line in the file and analyzing them instead of only looking through the first line.
def countList( myList ):
if len(myList) == 0:
return 0
#variables
totalChars = 0
digitCount = 0
spaceCount = 0
alphaCount = 0
upperCase = 0
lowerCase = 0
notDigitOrAlphaOrSpace = 0
for ch in myList:
totalChars+=1
if ch.isdigit():
digitCount+=1
elif ch.isspace():
spaceCount+=1
if ch.isupper():
upperCase+=1
else:
lowerCase+=1
else:
notDigitOrAlphaOrSpace+=1
#output
print("Total characters:\t\t",totalChars)
print("Total digits:\t\t",digitCount)
print("Total spaces:\t\t",spaceCount)
print("\tAlpha upper:\t",upperCase)
print("\tAlpha lower:\t", lowerCase)
print("Not an alpha or digit or space:\t", notDigitOrAlphaOrSpace)
return totalChars
def main():
myFile = open('text.txt','r')
myList = myFile.readline()
# call our count the characters function
numChars = countList(myList)
if numChars > 0:
print("Your file was",numChars,"characters long")
else:
print("Your file had no characters.")
main()
