Simple Script That Counts the Words in sys.stdin



import sys
text = sys.stdin.read()
words = text.split()
wordcount = len(words)

print 'Wordcount:'
print  wordcount

1.	Sort stdin input lines and send result to stdout
2.	sys stdin readline
3.	Use raw input to read int value
4.	sys.stdin.readline() with out error check

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