[Tutor] counting in a file

[Magnus Lycka]

At 18:54 2002-11-17 -0500, reavey wrote:
>I'm trying to count the number of times a word occurs in a file.

Untested...

wordCount = {}

for word in open(filename).read().split():
     if not wordCount.has_key(word):
         wordCount[word] = 0
     wordCount[word] += 1

for entry in wordCount.items():
     print "%s orrurs %i times" % entry


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