Re: [Tutor] count words

[Jeremy Jones]

Ron Nixon wrote: I know that you can do this to get a count of home many times a word appears in a file f = open('text.txt').read() print f.count('word') Other than using a several print statments to look for seperate words like this, is there a way to do it so that I get a individual count of each word: word1 xxx word2 xxx words xxx etc. Like this? A                        14 AND                      1 Abantes                  3 Abarbarea                1 Abas                     1 Abians                   1 Ablerus                  1 About                    2 Abydos                   3 Acamas                   11 Accept                   2 Acessamenus              1 Achaea                   1 Achaean                  34 Achaeans                 540 Achelous                 2 Achilles                 423 Acrisius                 1 Actaea                   1 Actor                    8 Adamas                   5 Admetus                  4 Adrastus                 2 Adresteia                1 Adrestus                 8 Aeacus                   20 Aegae                    2 Aegaeon                  1 Aegeus                   1 Aegialeia                1 Aegialus                 1 Aegilips                 1 Aegina                   1 Aegium                   1 Aeneas                   86 Aenus                    1 Aeolus                   1 Aepea                    2 Aepytus                  1 Aesculapius              7 Aesepus                  2 Aesopus                  4 Aesyetes                 2 Aesyme                   1 Aesymnus                 1 ... wronged                  2 wronging                 1 wrongs                   1 wroth                    1 wrought                  24 wrung                    1 yard                     3 yarded                   1 yards                    2 yawned                   1 ye                       3 yea                      1 year                     13 yearling                 2 yearned                  4 yearning                 2 years                    15 yellow                   5 yesterday                5 yet                      160 yield                    10 yielded                  3 yielding                 3 yieldit                  1 yoke                     24 yoked                    11 yokes                    1 yokestraps               1 yolking                  1 yonder                   3 you                      1712 young                    44 younger                  9 youngest                 6 your                     592 yourelf                  1 yours                    7 yourself                 60 yourselves               17 youselves                1 youth                    17 youths                   18 zeal                     2 I ran the following script on "The Iliad": #!/usr/bin/env python import string text = open('iliad.txt', 'r').read() for punct in string.punctuation:     text = text.replace(punct, ' ') words = text.split() word_dict = {} for word in words:     word_dict[word] = word_dict.get(word, 0) + 1 word_list = word_dict.keys() word_list.sort() for word in word_list:     print "%-25s%d" % (word, word_dict[word]) Jeremy Jones

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