wordcount.py

"""

        wordcount.py
        by aaron@andcuriouser.com

        Crawls through every .txt file in the current directory and gives you a
        total word count for all the documents.

        Prerequisities:
                None

        Usage:
                python wordcount.py

"""


import os

file_list = os.listdir(".")
textfiles = []
wordcount = 0

for f in file_list:
    if f[-3:] == "txt":
        textfiles.append(f)
for f in textfiles:
    file = open(f)
    while True:
        line = file.readline()
        if not line:
            break
        wordcount += len(line.split(None))
print
print "Files:\t\t", len(textfiles)
print "Wordcount:\t", wordcount
print "Average:\t", (wordcount/len(textfiles)), "words/file"
print