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count_words

Language/Type: Python string return

Write a function named count_words that accepts a string as its parameter and returns the number of words in it. A word is a sequence of one or more non-space characters. For example, the call of count_words("What is your name?") should return 4.

Function: Write a Python function as described, not a complete program.

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