Question

In the following cell, we've loaded the text of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, split it into individual words, and stored these words in an array p_and_p_words. Using a for loop, assign longer_than_five to the number of words in the novel that are more than 5 letters long. Hint: You can find the number of letters in a word with the len function.

Answer 1

The student's question is about using a for loop and the len function in Python to count words longer than five letters in an array derived from the text of Pride and Prejudice.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student asks how to use a for loop to count the number of words longer than five letters in an array p_and_p_words, which contains every word from Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. The len function in Python measures the length of each word. To accomplish the task, you would initialize a counter variable, iterate through the array with the loop, and use the len function to check the length of each word. If a word's length is greater than five letters, increment the counter. After the loop completes, the counter will hold the total count of words longer than five letters.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the array is not provided, I created a Python function that takes in the array and loops through it counting all of the words that are longer than 5. Then it returns the variable longer_than_five. To test this function I created an array of words based on the synapse of Pride and Prejudice. The output can be seen in the attached picture below.

def countWords(p_and_p_words):

longer_than_five = 0

for word in p_and_p_words:

if len(word) > 5:

longer_than_five += 1

return longer_than_five