''' Purpose: examine a list of words
'''

# get text from user
reply = input( 'Enter text: ' )

print()

# split text into words
words = reply.split()
 
# let's see what we got
print( 'Supplied text =', reply )
print( 'words =', words )

print()

# determine number of words

n = len( words )

# determine total word length

sum_of_word_lengths = 0 # hey look its an accumulator for a total... what should we initialize it to?
# if we're adding to our accumulator (building a sum/total), start at 0
for w in words :
    # get current word's length
    length_of_w = len( w )
    # add length to the accumulation
    sum_of_word_lengths = sum_of_word_lengths + length_of_w
    print( "w:",w )
    print( "w length:", length_of_w )
    print( "current sum:", sum_of_word_lengths )
    print()

# determine average

average_word_length = sum_of_word_lengths / n # arithmetic average/mean word length

print( 'Average word length:', average_word_length )