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s = raw_input("Enter a string: ")
a = 0
i = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s[i] == ' ':
        a = a + 1
        print str(a) + '. ' + 'There was a space in position ' + str(i) + '.'

i keep on trying to sub in while instead but it won't compute an answer.

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Member Avatar for woooee

A hint:

ctr=0

while ctr < len(s):
    print ctr, s[ctr]
    ctr += 1
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You just have to manually increase i at the end of the loop. And for the for loop you don't have to have i = 0 above it, just say for i in range(len(s)):

s = raw_input("Enter a string: ")
a, i = 0, 0
while i < len(str(s)):
    if s[i] == ' ':
        a += 1
        print str(a) + '. ' + 'There was a space in position ' + str(i) + '.'
    i += 1
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