Introduction

The task is to count the total number of lines in the text file.

Program

open_file = open("demo.txt","r") 
count  = 0
text = open_file.read() 
list = text.split("\n") 
for x in list: 
    if x: 
        count += 1
  
print("Total number of lines in the text file are:", count )

Output

Explanation

Approach:

• Open the text file using open() function.
• Read the text file and split the text when “\n” is encountered and store in a list.
• Traverse through the list and increment the count variable.
• Return the count value that is the total number of lines in text file.