Write a program that should prompt the user to type some sentence and count the number of characters in Python 

In this tutorial we will write a program that should prompt the user to type some sentence and count the number of characters in Python .

Steps

Steps to write a program that should prompt the user to type some sentence and count the number of characters in Python is mentioned below –

• First we will take input from user using input() function
• Then we will initialize a variable counter as 0 , iterate every character of the input and increase counter by 1 in each iteration
• Then we will print the counter variable .

Counting the number of characters of a given sentence in Python 

# Taking input from user
user_input=input("Type some sentence  :\n")

# initializing counter variable
counter =0

# counting the total character
for character in user_input:
    counter+=1

# printing the character count
print(counter)

Type some sentence  :
Python is a popular programming language . It was invented in 1991 .
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• In the above code first we have taken input from user using input() function
• Then we have initialized a variable counter as value 0.
• Then we have iterated the input and increase the counter by 1 in each iteration .
• After that we have printed the counter .
• After executing the code it has prompted us to type some sentence . After typing sentence whenever we press Enter key it will print the no of character in the output .

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