Trying to count words in a string

Question

I\'m trying to analyze the contents of a string. If it has a punctuation mixed in the word I want to replace them with spaces.

For example, If Johnny.Appleseed!is:a*good

Answer 1

#Write a python script to count words in a given string.
 s=str(input("Enter a string: "))
 words=s.split()
 count=0
  for word in words:
      count+=1

  print(f"total number of words in the string is : {count}")