Write a function def countwords(stri ng) that returns a count of all words in the string string. words are separated by spac for example, countwords ("mary had a little lamb") should return 5.

def w_count(s):

   return(len(s.split()))

st=input('Enter a string:')    

print("Number of words in given string=",w_count(st))

Explanation:

no, it just either gets automatically 5 points to give away, or u can choose how many points u want to give but, the answerer only gets half

is this supposed to be a question ?