How can we determine the total number of words in a list of strings using Python?

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We can determine the total number of words in a list of strings using Python by following these steps:

1. Initialize a variable to store the total number of words, let's call it "word_count", and set its value to 0.
2. Iterate through each string in the list using a for loop.
3. Split each string into a list of words using the split() method, which splits a string into a list using whitespace as the delimiter.
4. Add the length of this list (the number of words in the string) to the word_count variable.
5. After iterating through all strings in the list, the total number of words will be stored in the word_count variable.

Here's the code:

strings = ["This is a string.", "And another.", "Yet another!"]

word_count = 0

for string in strings:
    word_count += len(string.split())

print("Total number of words:", word_count)

Output:

Total number of words: 8

Note that we used the len() function to get the length of the list returned by split(). This is the number of words in the string. We then added this value to the wordcount variable using the += operator, which is a shorthand for wordcount = word_count + len(string.split()).