"Newbie" questions - "unique" sorting ?

[Kim Petersen]

Cousin Stanley wrote:
> John ....
> 
> { 1. Good News | 2. Bad News | 3. Good News } ....
> 
>   1. Good News ....
> 
>      The last version of word_list.py that I up-loaded
>      works as expected with your input file producing
>      an indexed word list with no duplicates ...
> 
> 
>   2. Bad News ....
> 
>      It was  S L O W E R  than the proverbial turtle
>      in the tar pit ...
> 
How about the simple approach?

total=0
unique={}
for line in open(infile,"rb").xreadlines():
    for word in line.strip().split():
        unique[word]=unique.get(word,0)+1
        total+=1
uwords=unique.keys()
uwords.sort()
open(outfile,"wb").write('\n'.join(uwords))

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