Counting number, letter and special characters in a string in python

Question

I"m struggling on how to count the letter, number, and special character in a string. I'm a beginner and exploring python. Thank you in advance guys!

string=input("Enter string: Abc123--- ")
count1=0
count2=0
count3=0
count4=0

for i in string:
      if(i.isletter()):
          count1=count1+1
            count2=count2+1
              count3=count3+1
      count4=count2+1
print("Letter count:")
print(count1)
print("Number count:")
print(count2)
print("Special Characters count:")
print(count3)
print("Total characters count:")
print(count4)
 

Answer 1

Use function len() to count symbols in string:

print(len(string))

Answer 2

Use this:

for x in string:
      if type(x) is int:
          num_int += 1
      elif type(x) is str:
          num_str += 1
      else:
          special_chr += 1

Answer 3

There are many ways you can do this. A simple approach would be:

import string
def letters(text):
    letter_list = string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase
    counter = 0
    for i in text:
        if i in letter_list:
            counter += 1
    return counter

def numbers(text):
    number_list = "0123456789"
    counter = 0
    for i in text:
        if i in number_list:
            counter += 1
    return counter

# you can just assume rest is the special if you have specially defined chars this works
def special(text):
    letter_list = "^&*+-" 
    counter = 0
    for i in text:
        if i in letter_list:
            counter += 1
    return counter

def counter(text):
    l = letters(text)
    n = numbers(text)
    s = special(text)
    return {"numbers": l, "letters":l, "special":s}

print(counter("Abc123---"))

Also a more compressed version would be:

import string
def counter(text):
    number_list = "0123456789"
    letter_list = string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase
    letter_count = 0
    number_count = 0
    special_count = 0
    for i in text:
        if i in number_list:
            number_count += 1
        elif i in letter_list:
            letter_count += 1
        else:
            special_count += 1
    return {"numbers": number_count, "letters":letter_count, "special":special_count}
print(counter("Abc123---"))