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Counting Number of Lines in a File

Explore how to count the number of lines in a text file using Python's split method on the newline character. Learn how to accurately calculate line counts, handle empty lines, and debug common issues to build a reliable line counter function.

Counting lines based on a newline character

Previously, we learned how to count words from a file.

In this lesson, we’ll learn how to count the number of lines in a file using the split() method ...