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I’m trying to make something to let you choose a bot’s WPM in a type racing game so let’s say you have a sentence like

for car owners, transmission failure can be a complete nightmare, costing thousands of dollars to fix or replace.

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for car owners, transmission failure can be a complete nightmare, costing thousands of dollars to fix or replace. 
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I need to find out how many words there are in it and the words can include periods and comma’s like

for,

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for,
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the comma can be included in the one word so that is just one word. And I need it to be able to read this sentence from a .txt file and give me the word count so I can calculate the delay needed to get the desired WPM. I have no idea how to do that so any help would be appreciated.

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As mentioned in a comment by @S3DEV:

Once you have read the text file into a string s, you can do len(s.split()) to find the amount of words!

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