Python Program Not Reading in File -

trying create simple program counts number of lines, words, , characters in file. can't seem file read in though, returns name of file , not contents of file. have been passing file name in on command line without quotation marks.

print("this program count number of line, words, , characters in file.") user_in = input("please enter file counted: ") infile = open(user_in, "r")   lc = 0 wc = 0 w_len = 0   line in infile:     usr_list = user_in.split(" ")     print(usr_list)     lc += 1     x in usr_list:         w_len += len(x)         wc += 1  #avg = w_len//wc print("there {} lines, {} words, , {} characters in file.".format(lc, wc, w_len))  infile.close() 

you're doing usr_list = user_in.split(" ") seems like usr_list = line.split(" ")