To count the number of spaces in a string in Python:
my_string = "Good morning and hello world"
count = 0
for c in my_string:
if c == " ":
count += 1
print(count)
The result:
4
Function to count the number of spaces
Here is a function to count the number of spaces in a string in Python:
def count_spaces_string(my_string: str) -> int:
"""
Count the number of spaces in a string
:param my_string: The actual string
:return: The number of spaces in that string
"""
count = 0
for c in my_string:
if c == " ":
count += 1
return count
example_string = "Good morning and hello world"
print(count_spaces_string(example_string))
The result:
4
Add a Pytest test
To test the “count_spaces_string” function using Pytest:
import pytest
# Assuming the count_spaces_string function is stored under app.string_operations
from app.string_operations import count_spaces_string
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"input_string, expected_output",
[("Good morning and hello world", 4), ("Hello", 0), ("", 0)],
)
def test_count_spaces_string(input_string, expected_output):
"""
Test the count_spaces_string function across different strings
:param input_string: The input string to test
:param expected_output: The expected number of spaces in the string tested
"""
assert count_spaces_string(input_string) == expected_output
The result:
============================= test session starts =============================
collecting ... collected 3 items
test_string_operations.py::test_count_spaces_string[Good morning and hello world-4] PASSED [ '33%']
test_string_operations.py::test_count_spaces_string[Hello-0] PASSED [ '66%']
test_string_operations.py::test_count_spaces_string[-0] PASSED ['100%']
============================== 3 passed in '0.01s' ==============================
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