11-02-Len-Investigate

Inspect the code carefully and write a prediction in the comments about what it will do.

• Run the code and compare the result to their prediction.

Be able to read, comprehend, trace, adapt and create Python code using selection that:

• Uses len to count the number of characters in a string

The **len() **function returns the number of characters in a string. It takes the string as its parameter.

This code gets input, stores it in the word variable and finds out how many characters are in it.

print("Enter a word")
word = input()

Uses the len() function as part of the print() function. Removes the need for the word_length variable.

print(len(word))

Make sure that you check for the following things:

• len is lower case
• the length of the string has been assigned into a variable
• spaces are characters too!