def count_spaces(file_name):
with open(file_name, ‘r’) as file:
text = file.read()
num_spaces = text.count(‘ ‘)
return num_spaces
file_name = r’C:\Desktop\ajay.txt’ # Use raw string literal
num_spaces = count_spaces(file_name)
print(f’The number of spaces in {file_name} is {num_spaces}.’)