python计算txt文本有多少单词

def count_words(filename):

    try:
        with open(filename) as file:
            contents = file.read()
    except FileNotFoundError:
        msg = 'Sorry, the file '+filename+' does not exist'
        print(msg)
    else:
        words = contents.split()
        n_words = len(words)
        print(n_words)

filenames = ['alice.txt','pi_digits.txt','hh.txt','little_women.txt','moby_dick.txt','siddhartha.txt']
for filename in filenames:
    count_words(filename)

结果如下

29461
3
Sorry, the file hh.txt does not exist
189079
215136
42172
>>> 

值得注意的是，如果文本中放的是数字，而不是字母（单词），则不需要用split()来分割，否则会出错，这是因为分割split()将一串数字看成一个字符引起的。如上面的pi_digits.txt的文本如下：

3.1415926535
  8979323846
  2643383279

分割之后

>>> with open('pi_digits.txt') as file:
    w = file.read()
    w.split()


['3.1415926535', '8979323846', '2643383279']

可见最开始给的结果3就是这样来的，看成了三个字符。
如果有数字文本，那么去掉split()函数就可以了，还是以pi为例：

def count_words(filename):

    try:
        with open(filename) as file:
            contents = file.read()
    except FileNotFoundError:
        msg = 'Sorry, the file '+filename+' does not exist'
        print(msg)
    else:
        n_words = len(contents)
        print(n_words)

filename = 'pi_digits.txt'
count_words(filename)

结果如下：

38
>>>