Question

Create a text file with name "article.txt". Write a function in Python to count the number of articles

(words "a", "an", "the") present in a text file "article.txt"

Answer 1

count = 0
with open('article.txt') as f:
    for line in f:
        for word in line.split():
            word = word.lower()
            if word == 'a' or word == 'an' or word == 'the':
                count += 1

print(f'The total number of articles in "article.xt" is {count}')