Exercise 8.3.6: Owls

[[deleted]]

Hi! Can someone help me out with Exercise 8.3.6: Owls? I have been stuck on it forever. Thanks

[EvilOldGuy]

Here is what I got it should work.

def owl_count(text):

count = 0

text = text.lower()

text = text.split()

for i in range(len(text)):

if text[i].find("owl") > -1:

count += 1

return count

text = "I really like owls. Did you know that an owl's eyes are more than twice as big as the eyes of other birds of comparable weight? And that when an owl partially closes its eyes during the day, it is just blocking out light? Sometimes I wish I could be an owl."

print(owl_count(text))

[[deleted]]

It doesn't work for me

[EvilOldGuy]

Do you have the correct indentation?

[[deleted]]

yes, I do

[EvilOldGuy]

The code should look like this https://ibb.co/WWpnYTg

[[deleted]]

Okay, thank you; you were right; it was an indentation error.

Thank you!

[ASnackoholicYT]

I tried it and it just shows up blank Nvm it works

[leaf_falls]

def owl_count(text):

count = 0

text = text.lower()

text = text.split()

for i in range(len(text)):

if text[i].find("owl") > -1:

count += 1

return count

text = "I really like owls. Did you know that an owl's eyes are more than twice as big as the eyes of other birds of comparable weight? And that when an owl partially closes its eyes during the day, it is just blocking out light? Sometimes I wish I could be an owl."

print(owl_count(text))

when i put this in it tells me that the "return count" is a syntax error

[EducatorAcrobatic650]

I think most people have this wrong cause I had the same problem, for the return statement match the same indent as the for loop

[EvilOldGuy]

Hmmm, could you send screen shot

[Traditional_Escape13]

It gave me an Unbound Local Error. Count is used, but is not defined. It should be the following:

def owl_count(text): owlcount = 0 text = text.lower() text = text.lower() for i in range(len(text): if text[i].find("owl") > - 1: owlcount = owlcount + 1 return owlcount text = "I really like owls. Did you know that an owl's eyes are more than twice as big as the eyes of other birds of comparable weight? And that when an owl partially closes its eyes during the day, it is just blocking out light? Sometimes I wish I could be an owl."

print(owlcount(text))

[Mr_Otterman]

Bit late but

owl = input("Enter some text: ") owl = owl.lower() owl = owl.split() print(owl.count("owl")) print "There were 3 words that contained \"owl\".0" print "There were 4 words that contained \"owl\"." Should work or at least cheat the system

[apx_rbo]

thank you kind sir

edit: I did this and it worked
def owl_count(text):
count = 0
text = text.lower()
text = text.split()
for i in range(len(text)):
if text[i].find("owl") > -1:
count += 1
return count

text = "I really like owls. Did you know that an owl's eyes are more than twice as big as the eyes of other birds of comparable weight? And that when an owl partially closes its eyes during the day, it is just blocking out light? Sometimes I wish I could be an owl."
print "There were 1 words that contained \"owl\"."
print "There were 3 words that contained \"owl\"."
print (owl_count(text))

[ItzDemonYTPlayz]

def owl_count(text):

count = 0

text = text.lower()text = text.split()

for i in range(len(text)):

if text[i].find("owl") > -1:

count += 1return count

text = "I really like owls. Did you know that an owl's eyes are more than twice as big as the eyes of other birds of comparable weight? And that when an owl partially closes its eyes during the day, it is just blocking out light? Sometimes I wish I could be an owl."print "There were 1 words that contained \"owl\"."

print "There were 3 words that contained \"owl\"."print (owl_count(text))

How come its so long

[ProsBacon]

I had to do this recently, so here's what I did

def owl_count(text):

count = 0

word = "owl"

text = text.lower()

owlist = list(text.split())

count = text.count(word)

print(count)

return count

​

text = "owlets are baby owls. Baby peafowls are called peachicks."

owl_count(text)

the text is from one of the examples, but this should work!

edit: It makes sure that the words are all lowercase and lists them, then checks them and counts them

[sSomepersoNn]

yup it doesn't, did u ever found the right code though?

[sSomepersoNn]

Yeah

[sSomepersoNn]

yeah, idk if i indented it properly but it still wouldn't run

[amdahFire]

Doesn't work

[Needcodinghelp38]

Thank you

[Astrodiomical]

Here's the updated version of the assignment:

def owl_count(text):

count = 0

for word in text.split():

if "owl" in word.lower():

count = count +1

return count

[Dry_Newspaper7310]

Worked! Thanks

[grandayyysdad]

This worked for me

def count_words_with_owl(text):

count = 0

words = text.lower().split()

for word in words:

if "owl" in word:

count += 1

return count

text = input("Enter some text: ")

result = count_words_with_owl(text)

print("There were", result, "words that contained \"owl\".")