I am trying to find out the length of Hindi words in Python, like 'प्रवीण' has length of 3 as per my knowledge.

w1 = 'प्रवीण'
print(len(w1))

I tried this code but it didn't work.

CodePudding user response：

In the Hindi language, each character need not be of length one as is in English. For example, वी is not one character but rather two characters combined into one:

1. व
2. ी

So in your case, the word प्रवीण is not of length 3 but rather 6.

w1 = "प्रवीण"
for w in w1:
    print(w)

And the output would be

प
्
र
व
ी
ण

CodePudding user response：

As @betelgeuse has said, Hindi does not function the way you think it does. Here's some pseudocode (working) to do what you expect though:

w1 = 'प्रवीण'

def hindi_len(word):
    hindi_letts = 'कखगघङचछजझञटठडढणतथदधनपफबभमक़ख़ग़ज़ड़ढ़फ़यरलळवहशषसऱऴअआइईउऊऋॠऌॡएऐओऔॐऍऑऎऒ'
    # List of hindi letters that aren't halves or mantras
    count = 0
    for i in word:
        if i in hindi_letts:
            count  = 1 if word[word.index(i) - 1] != '्' else 0 # Make sure it's not a half-letter
    return count

print(hindi_len(w1))

This outputs 3. It's up to you to customize it as you'd like, though.

Edit: Make sure you use python 3.x or prefix Hindi strings with u in python 2.x, I've seen some language errors with python 2.x non-unicode encoding somewhere before...