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

[Alan Gauld]

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On 01/06/15 23:59, Stephanie Quiles wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> here is the final code… I think :) please see below. Is this is the 
> easiest way to go about it? I appreciate your assistance!
>
> defmain():
>      words = {}
>      count =0

Do you need count? What is its purpose?
>      withopen('words.txt')asdata:
>          forlineindata:
>              text = line.split()
>              forwordintext:
>                  ifwordnot inwords:
>                      words[word] =1
>                  else:
>                      words[word] +=1

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

>              count +=1
>      print(words)

Aside from the two comments above, good job!

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