writeFile = open("testFile.txt", "w") #opens for write writeFile.write("Bob, sue, george, washington, gary, cayleigh, jorge, paula") #insert any number of names you like! writeFile.close #close import string #string library readFile = open('testFile.txt', 'r') #opens for read names = readFile.read() print "There are " + str(len(string.split(names))) + " names in the file." #len counts the strings readFile.close() #close #found the string library at https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html which shows split
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