Counting word frequency in a text with Python
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import string
wd = {}
# for every line, every word in line, add it to the dictionary
for line in open("text.txt"):
for word in line.split():
word = word.strip(string.punctuation).lower()
# wd[word] = True
wd[word] = wd.get(word, 0) + 1 # for word counting
# get the dictionary keys, and alphabetize
allwords = wd.keys()
allwords.sort()
for word in allwords:
# print w
print word, wd[word]