PLEASE USE PYTHON AND REPLACE COMMENTS WITH ACTUAL LINES OF CODE!!

## # Use a function to count the number of words in a string. #

def main() : inputStr = input("Enter a string: ") # replace this line print("The string contains", inputStrWordCount, "words")

## Count the number of words in a string. # @param string the string of characters to process # @return the number of words # def countWords(string) : # Remove any leading or trailing spaces to make counting easier. string = string.strip()

# Handle the empty string as a special case. if string == "" : # replace this line

# Count the spaces to count the number of words. count = 1 for ch in string : if ch == " " : # replace this line return count

# Call the main function. main()