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Word count breaks on double spaces — Python debugging challenge | BugHunt

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Word count breaks on double spaces

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What it should do

count_words(text) should count the words in a string, however much whitespace separates them.

What goes wrong

count_words("hello world") returns 3 instead of 2 — the double space is counted as a word.

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Hints

This is a logic errors bug

The wrong operator, an inverted condition, a formula the right way round but backwards.

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