Write code to find out how many lines are in the file emotion_words.txt as shown above. Save this value to the variable num_lines. Do not use the len method.

CountLines.py

#Write code to find out how many lines are in the file emotion_words.txt as shown above. Save this value to the variable num_lines. Do not use the len method.

file = open("emotion_word.txt","r")
count = 0
for aline in file.readlines():
    count += 1
num_lines = count

"""
Write code to find out how many lines are in the file emotion_words.txt as shown above. Save this value to the variable num_lines. Do not use the len method.

"""

I like generator comprehensions because they yield each item out of the expression, one by one. And because of it, it saves a lot of memory.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/364802/how-exactly-does-a-generator-comprehension-work

with open('emotion_words.txt', 'r') as fileref:
    num_lines = sum(1 for line in fileref)
    print(num_lines)

thank you!

#To create a string called first_forty comprised of the first 40 characters of the file "emotion_words2.txt,"

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Open the file in read mode and read the first 40 characters

with open("emotion_words2.txt", "r") as file:
first_forty = file.read(40)

Print the first 40 characters (optional)

print("First 40 characters:", first_forty)