Find the number of characters in a file using Python

Question

Here is the question:

I have a file with these words:

hey how are you
I am fine and you
Yes I am fine

And it is asked to find the numbe

Answer 1

Here is the code:

fp = open(fname, 'r+').read()
chars = fp.decode('utf8')
print len(chars)

Check the output. I just tested it.