I want to generate an Indonesian wordlist file from html files such as those downloaded from http://www.kompas.com [national newspaper online]. Further enhancement, the application should be able to display frequency of occurence of each world listed.

Can python do this?

So the spec. of my simple script, possibly:

Html files is provided in one folder.

He should be able to:
1. read each html file from the folder
until all files read
2. for each file read, get words
3. for each word,
store in a wordlist file, if it has not
been stored there yet
[add frequency of occurence
as required]

Output:
1. A wordlist file ordered from a-z
[one word one line]
2. A wordlist file ordered from a-z plus
frequency of occurence

Thank you....

You made Python sound very interestung to me!

I have played with Python a little and find it refreshing compared to C++. Gone is the long list of header files and references to obscure libraries in the make/batch file for the compiler. Also gone are the "gotchya" memory leaks.

I have to get used to the fact that type declarations are by inference, and there is only one type of string/character object. Another thing to get used to is the indention of statement blocks to replace {} and the semicolons are gone!

Interesting this Python code. I highlighted the code and pasted it into IDLE editor and it runs fine. I am using Python 2.5.

great thanks..i run in mac os with python 2.6.2 installed. New to python, but a very good start!

very clear ... i was looking for the pause and you had it ...

i am trying to get use to the lack of ; at end of each line ...

i am getting a good vibe from this language and it ranks high on the 43 i know

i am getting back into program from past OO coding i was looking for the modular2 version of APL but i think this will do just fine as re-tune my skills.

# hard to believe that Python23 was 8 years ago!

# ran the old Python23 code through the 2to3.py utility
# just to show the changes in Python syntax for Python3

print("Simple math like 12345679*63 = ", 12345679*63)

# print just an empty line (use '' to potentially work with Python27)
print('')

# display numbers 0 to 9
# the indentation before print makes it part of the loop
for number in range(10):
    print(number)

# print also adds a newline, use a comma to prevent the newline
# in Python3 use end=' '
for number in range(10):
    print(number, end=' ')

print('')

# import the math module for the sqrt() function
import math

# a little more complex this time
# \n is the newline character, % starts the format specifier
# Python does have its roots in the C language
# notice how we use the sqrt() function from the math module
# CYA: more specifically, sqrt() is a function in module math
print("\nSquare root of integers 0 to 9 formatted as a float with 4 decimals:")
for value in range(10):
    squareRoot = math.sqrt(value)
    print("sqrt(%d) = %.4f" % (value, squareRoot))

# now it gets a bit more hairy
print("\nDisplay integers 0 to 15 formatted to use 6 spaces ...")
print("(plain, zero-padded, hex and octal)")
print("   %s      %s      %s     %s" % ('%6d', '%06d', '%6x', '%6o'))
for value in range(16):
    print("%6d    %06d   %6x  %6o" % (value, value, value, value))

print('')

print("\nA not so typical for loop:")
for food in "spam", "eggs", "cumquats":
    print("I love", food)

print('')

# a short intro to string slicing
# a little cryptic at first blush, but very powerful
# [begin : < end : step]  end is exclusive, step is optional
# defaults are index begin = 0, index end = length, step = 1
animal = "hippopotamus"
print("this is the string    = ", animal)
print("length of string      = ", len(animal))
print("exclude first 3 char  = ", animal[3: ])
print("exclude last 4 char   = ", animal[:-4])
print("reverse the string    = ", animal[::-1])

# define/create a function
# the indented lines are part of the function
def convertFahrenheit2Celsius(fahrenheit):
    celcius = 0.555 * (fahrenheit - 32)
    return celcius

print('')

# and use the function
# (make sure you define/create the function before you call it)
print("A Fahrenheit to Celcius table:")
# range is from -40 to < 220 in steps of 10
for tf in range(-40, 220, 10):
    print("%5.1fF = %5.1fC" % ( tf, convertFahrenheit2Celsius(tf) ))

print('')

print("A limited set:")
# another variation of the for loop
for tf in -40,0,32,98.6:
    print("%5.1fF = %5.1fC" % ( tf, convertFahrenheit2Celsius(tf) ))

print('')

# test boolean results
print("Is 3 > 5? Result =", 3 > 5)  # result = False
print("Is 3 < 5? Result =", 3 < 5)  # result = True

# optional wait for keypress
input('Press Enter...')