wcv2.py

#! /usr/bin/python3

import sys
print("This is the name of the script: ", sys.argv[0])
print("Number of arguments: ", len(sys.argv))
print("The arguments are: " , str(sys.argv))

for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
    file_content = open(filename,"r").read()
    wordcount = len(file_content.split())
    print("{} wordcount = {}".format(filename,wordcount))