name = "Tom Fisk" here name actually contains 7 characters but according to the solution, it would calculate 8. So, perhaps ? name_len = len(name) - name.count(' ')

Hi Shivam, Yes, you are correct - it does count space as a character. I think this appears to be consistent with the defintion of a character which can include whitespace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_(computing) For example, if you considered the following variations of a name, they would both have the same number of characters (14): 'Ann-Marie Fisk' 'Ann Marie Fisk' The only difference between the two would be that the first one has the punctuation '-' as a character following 'Ann', while the second one has whitespace ' ' as a character following 'Ann'. Thanks for sharing your code showing how to use the string_variable.count() method.

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Solution 4 also takes into account the spaces given in the name?

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