Question

How to count the white spaces in a string in Python

Answer 1

def count_whitespaces_in_string(s):
    whitespaces = len(s) - len(s.lower().replace(" ", "").replace("\n", "").replace("\r", "").replace("\t", ""))
    
    return whitespaces
    
s = "Python \n  Programming \r Language \t ";

print("Total white spaces:", count_whitespaces_in_string(s))


'''
run:

Total white spaces: 10

'''

 

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Answer 2

def count_whitespaces_in_string(s):
    return sum(1 for c in s if c.isspace())

s = "Python \n  Programming \r Language \t ";

print("Total white spaces:", count_whitespaces_in_string(s))


'''
run:

Total white spaces: 10

'''

 

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