Solution: count words in file
examples/dictionary/count_words_in_file.py
from collections import defaultdict import sys filename = 'README' if len(sys.argv) > 1: filename = sys.argv[1] print(filename) count = defaultdict(int) with open(filename) as fh: for full_line in fh: line = full_line.rstrip('\n') line = line.lower() for word in line.split(): if word == '': continue count[word] += 1 for word in sorted(count): print("{:13} {:>2}".format(word, count[word]))