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Create a program that reads a text (.txt) file and does the following: a. Count the number of lines in the file b. Count the number of words in the file Create a sample text file with lines and words to test the program. 

          Create a program that reads a text (.txt) file and does the following:
a. Count the number of lines in the file
b. Count the number of words in the file

Create a sample text file with lines and words to test the program.

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Computer Science and Information Technology
Computer Science and Information Technology
Trishna Knowledge Systems 2018 Edition
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00:01 Okay, this one says, a complete program that asks the user to enter the name of a text file.
00:06 Using a function, open and read the content of the file, count how many lines exist in the file.
00:12 Play only the number of lines counted to the user do not display any message from the count lines function.
00:21 I'm not familiar with that function, so i guess that's fine.
00:27 Clear a function.
00:28 Oh, i guess that's our function.
00:30 Okay.
00:31 So they want us to make a function, and we're going to call it a function.
00:33 Count lines.
00:36 It's going to take string, file name.
00:42 But since this is python, we don't need to say string, actually.
00:45 So we're just going to do that.
00:46 And we're going to say f equals open.
00:50 Looks like we have a file called text of txc.
00:53 And we're going to say f.
00:55 Read.
00:57 And we're going to say for, we're going to say text equals f .reed...
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