Re: [Tutor] creat a program that reads frequency of words in file

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/06/15 00:42, Alan Gauld wrote:

             forwordintext:
                 ifwordnot inwords:
                     words[word] =1
                 else:
                     words[word] +=1

Look into the setdefault() method of dictionaries.
It can replace the if/else above.

On reflection, the get() method might be even more useful.

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