# wordcount.py
# Steve Marschner (srm2)
# February 25, 2014
"""Demo of counting words, lines, and characters."""
import sys

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # If the user gave us one filename on the command line, read its
    # contents; otherwise complain that there should have been one.
    if len(sys.argv) == 2:
        text = open(sys.argv[1]).read()
        # Print statistics for the string we read
        num_chars = len(text)
        num_words = len(text.split())
        num_lines = len(text.split('\n'))
        num_stanzas = len(text.split('\n\n'))
        print num_chars, 'characters,', num_words, 'words,', \
            num_lines, 'lines,', num_stanzas, 'stanzas.'
    else:
        print "Usage: python wordcount.py <text file>"