#!/usr/bin/env python3

'''

Description: Python script to find the length of an input word

Parameters:

word: Word for which we need to find the length

Examples:

$ python3 stringLen.py -w 'original'

'''

from argparse import ArgumentParser

from argparse import RawTextHelpFormatter

from sys import exit

parser = ArgumentParser(description='Script to find the length of a word', prog='stringLen', usage='%(prog)s [option]')

parser.add_argument('-w','--word', action='store', dest='word', help='Length of word to find')

value = parser.parse_args()

if value.word in None:

parser.print_help()

exit

def length(word):

'''

Find the length of the input word

Parameter:

word: Word, whose length need to find

Return:

length of the word

'''

count = 0 # to store the number of character in the word

for char in word: # for each character in the word

count += 1 # increment the count of the number of character

print ("The length of the word {}".format(word)

length(value.word)