In class, we have started writing a script that processes two hard-coded sentences, and keep a running total of the number of words actually uttered by the speakers. We did this in a dumb way: copy-pasting the processing block. Now simplify the script using a "for loop". The idea should be to replace the two copies of the processing block with a single copy inside a loop. To do this, you'll need to create a list containing the two sentences, write a "for loop"" operating over this list, and put the processing block inside that loop. You can of course have more than 2 sentences in the list ;-)
Here is what the code looks like so far (also posted on the website):
# initialization # keep track of total of words totalWords = 0 # processing of sentence 1 sentence = "B-f: I'm in graduate school" # get the words of the sentence words = sentence.split() print("Words of sentence 1:", words) # extract speaker ID speaker = words[0] # extract words uttered (everyting except first element in the list) actualWords = words[1:] # number of words uttered numberAWords = len(actualWords) # increment the total totalWords = totalWords + numberAWords print("speaker is: ", speaker) print("words are", actualWords) print("number of words:", numberAWords) print("total so far:", totalWords) # processing of sentence 2 sentence = "A-f: at OSU?" # get the words of the sentence words = sentence.split() print("Words of sentence 2:", words) # extract speaker ID speaker = words[0] # extract words uttered (everyting except first element in the list) actualWords = words[1:] # number of words uttered numberAWords = len(actualWords) # increment the total totalWords = totalWords + numberAWords print("speaker is: ", speaker) print("words are", actualWords) print("number of words:", numberAWords) print("total so far:", totalWords) # post-analysis print("total words uttered:", totalWords)