Help with calculating average word length

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Hello,

Can anybody teach me how to calculate average word length for the following two projects please?

Date-a-scientist project:
https://www.codecademy.com/paths/data-science/tracks/machine-learning-capstone-skill-path/modules/machine-learning-capstone-project-skill-path/informationals/date-a-scientist-skill-path

Twitter classification project:
https://www.codecademy.com/paths/data-science/tracks/supervised-machine-learning-cumulative-project-skill-path/modules/supervised-learning-cumulative-project-skill-path/informationals/twitter-classification-cumulative-project-skill-path

I’m not sure how to remove the punctuation from each word and how best to go about getting the average word length.

Thanks so much!

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Maybe the thing you’re really missing is to identify what you’re missing to do that all on your own. Break things down into smaller problems, for example, given a character, can you tell whether that’s punctuation? If you do that many times (if you’re using words like many or repeat then you’d want a loop) then you have the ability to separate letters and non letters … and so on.

What’s stopping you? If you’re going to solve a problem then you need to start with identifying what the problem is.