9.5. The Accumulator Pattern¶
def num_characters(string):
total = 0
for character in string:
total += 1
return total
original_string = "The quick brown rhino jumped over the extremely lazy fox."
print(f"The numbers of characters in the original string using `len` is {len(original_string)}.")
print(f"The numbers of characters in the original string using `num_characters` is {num_characters(original_string)}.")