average_words_in_file.py

# coding=utf-8
file = open('C:\\file.txt', 'r', encoding ='utf-8')
lines = file.readlines()
file.close()

number_of_words_per_line = []
for line in lines:
    line.replace(".","")
    line.replace(",","")
    line.replace("!","")
    line.replace("?","")
    line.replace("(","")
    line.replace(")","")
    line.replace('"',"")
    words_in_line = line.split()
    number_of_words_per_line.append(len(words_in_line))

print(number_of_words_per_line)

total_words = 0
for number in number_of_words_per_line:
    total_words += number

print(total_words/len(lines))