Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'else:': 0.03; 'none,': 0.05; 'processed': 0.05; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'subject:file': 0.07; 'dict': 0.09; 'long)': 0.09; 'loop.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:same': 0.09; 'dec': 0.15; '":"': 0.16; "'r')": 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'simplified': 0.16; 'subject:txt': 0.16; 'wed,': 0.16; 'skip:= 10': 0.20; 'bit': 0.21; 'list:': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'lines': 0.28; 'indentation': 0.29; 'words': 0.29; '"the': 0.29; 'subject:last': 0.30; 'gets': 0.32; 'could': 0.32; 'print': 0.32; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'list': 0.35; 'open': 0.35; 'continue': 0.35; 'next': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'previous': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'skip:l 20': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'subject:...': 0.63; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'taking': 0.65; 'dennis': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: counting how often the same word appears in a txt file...But my code only prints the last line entry in the txt file Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:29:00 -0500 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-249-24-60.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 48 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1355941724 news.xs4all.nl 6981 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54558 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:35148 On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:45:13 -0800 (PST), dgcosgrave@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > tm =open('ask.txt', 'r') > dict = {} > for line in tm: > line = line.strip() > line = line.translate(None, '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~') > line = line.lower() > list = line.split(' ') You could (though it gets a bit long) combine some of the above... list = line.strip().translate( None, "the punctuation set" ).lower().split() # taking advantage that open ()/[]/{} automatically continue on next lines > for word in list: INDENTATION! As coded, you first do the strip/translate/lower/split on EACH line of the file... THEN you are processing the words in the LAST line processed in the previous loop. > if word in dict: > count = dict[word] > count += 1 > dict[word] = count > else: > dict[word] = 1 More indentation -- I suspect your want the else: and following line to be indented the same as the if line... Though the whole block can be simplified to dict[word] = dict.get(word, 0) + 1 > for word, count in dict.iteritems(): > print word + ":" + str(count) -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/