From 6e9663d0e05f8ceb41fe1f08c93febd2185959d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Khushleen Kaur <khushleenkaur202007@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:55:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle whitespace correctly in word count

---
 fixit/wordcount.py      | 3 ++-
 tests/test_wordcount.py | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fixit/wordcount.py b/fixit/wordcount.py
index dca0f03..48730d1 100644
--- a/fixit/wordcount.py
+++ b/fixit/wordcount.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
+import re
 """Word, line and character counting."""
 
 
 def count_words(text: str) -> int:
     """Return the number of words in text."""
-    return len(text.split(" "))
+    return len(re.split(r'\s+',text.strip()))
 
 
 def count_lines(text: str) -> int:
diff --git a/tests/test_wordcount.py b/tests/test_wordcount.py
index 5e3a2f9..d6a9607 100644
--- a/tests/test_wordcount.py
+++ b/tests/test_wordcount.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ def test_count_words_simple():
     assert count_words("hello world") == 2
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(reason="Known bug: multiple spaces are counted as words")
 def test_count_words_extra_spaces():
     assert count_words("hello    world") == 2