Question

Letter Count : Write a Python script that reads a file and outputs the number of words that start with each letter. This means that for every letter we want to count the total number of (nonunique) words that begin with that letter. In your implementation you should ignore the letter case, i.e., consider all words as lower case.

Output the results in the following format (below values are hypothetical): a or A: 120 b or B: 460 c or C: 240 (do this for all letters from a to z in alphabetical order) z or Z: 22

Answer 1

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Code:

result = {}

try:

fname = input("Enter input filename: ")

fp = open(fname, "r")

for line in fp.readlines():

words = line.strip().split()

for word in words:

word = word.lower()

if word[0] not in result:

result[word[0]] = 0

result[word[0]] += 1

for ch in result:

print(ch+" "+ch.upper()+": "+str(result[ch]))

except FileNotFoundError:

print("Unable to open file")