Question

I am working on Exercise 5.8 from Fundamentals of Python 2nd edition. Do you have a solution for this item? Thank you. Here is the code I have. I just need 1 instance of each to show in my output. should look like:

AM 3

I 3

SAM 3

Thank you...

# Put your code here
#fileName = input("Enter the file name: ")
fileName = "example.txt"
#fileName = "kgtest.txt"
inputFile = open(fileName, 'r')
text = inputFile.read()
#print(text)
words = text.split()
#print(words)
words.sort()
#print(words)
#theList = []

for word in words:
# print(word)
print(word,words.count(word))
# theDict[word,words.count(word)]
# theList.append(word, words.count(word))
inputFile.close()

there is no comment. not sure what else you need

Answer 1

CODE:

# take input of the sample file from user

fileName=input("Please enter the file name: ").strip()

# declare teh words variable to hold the words from the text file

words=''

# if not valid file please diplay the message

if not fileName:

    print("Please enter a valid file name")

else:

    # open file and read the content to a string words

    f=open(fileName,'r')

    words=f.read()

    f.close()

# declare the dictionary

theDict={}

# split the ords based on and trim them at the same time

words_lst=[x.strip() for x in words.split(',')]

# sort the words lsit we created above,

# its in-place operation. ie, variables are sorted and restructed

words_lst.sort()

# looping over the words in the list

for word in words_lst:

    # print the words in list,

    # along with the times of occurance in the list.

    print(word,words_lst.count(word))

    # add word in the dictionary

    if word not in theDict:

        theDict[word]=words.count(word)

# display the dictionary created form the words list

print(theDict)

SNIPPET:

example.txt:

I, Am, Sam, From, West Virginia, living, in, a, boulevard, 234 Street, in, city, I, find, many, things

RESULT: