Question

This is function.py
def processString(string):
  # Implement this function

This is 
# This should print 4.5 3.0
processString("An example. Two")

# This should print 4.4 5.3 4.5
processString("This is the first sentence. The second sentence starts after the period. Then a final sentence")

Download function.py and complete the processString(string) function. This function takes in a string as a parameter and prints the average number of characters per word in each sentence in the string. Print the average character count per word for each sentence with 1 decimal precision (see test cases below).

- Assume a sentence always ends with a period (.) or when the string ends.

- Assume there is always a blank space character (" ") between each word.

- Do not count the blank spaces between words or the periods as a character.

Two example test cases are: >>> processString("An example. Dog") 4.5 3.0

(Note that the first sentence has 2 words with a total of 9 characters, so 4.5 characters per word on average. The second sentence has 1 word of 3 characters, so 3 characters on average.)

>>> processString("This is the first sentence. The second sentence starts after the period. Then a final sentence") 4.4 5.3 4.5

Answer 1

def processString(string):
    sentences = string.split(".")
    for sentence in sentences:
        words = sentence.strip().split()
        total = 0
        for word in words:
            total += len(word)
        print(round(total / len(words), 1), end=' ')
    print()


# This should print 4.5 3.0
processString("An example. Two")

# This should print 4.4 5.3 4.5
processString("This is the first sentence. The second sentence starts after the period. Then a final sentence")