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Oct 12th, 2009

Word counting from file

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I need to prompt a user to type in a text file name and then take that file and and count the amount of words in the file. I have this code which counts the words in a file(that may not be "perfectly" written). I cannot figure out how to take the prompt text file and and get those words counted. I add a first line of say text = raw_input("enter a text file name: ") but I cannot take the file name given and have the words counted.

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 text = open("rainfall.txt", "r")
for t in text:
    words = t.split()
    wordCount = len(words)
    print wordCount
 
text.close()
 text = open("rainfall.txt", "r")
for t in text:
    words = t.split()
    wordCount = len(words)
    print wordCount

text.close()

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Re: Word counting from file

try something like this for the file input:

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fileName = raw_input( "Enter filename( include .txt ): " )
text = open( fileName, "r" )
wordCount = 0
 
for t in text.readlines():   
     wordsInLine = t.split( " " )
     wordCount += len( wordsInLine )
 
print "Word count is " + wordCount 
text.close()
fileName = raw_input( "Enter filename( include .txt ): " )
text = open( fileName, "r" )
wordCount = 0

for t in text.readlines():   
     wordsInLine = t.split( " " )
     wordCount += len( wordsInLine )
 
print "Word count is " + wordCount 
text.close()

This is in case the text in the file is correctly formated, i.e 1 space btw words.....

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Re: Word counting from file

Thanks a bunch for that. It all makes sense now.

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Re: Word counting from file

Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by kenmeck03 ...

I need to prompt a user to type in a text file name and then take that file and and count the amount of words in the file. I have this code which counts the words in a file(that may not be "perfectly" written). I cannot figure out how to take the prompt text file and and get those words counted. I add a first line of say text = raw_input("enter a text file name: ") but I cannot take the file name given and have the words counted.
Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
 text = open("rainfall.txt", "r")
for t in text:
    words = t.split()
    wordCount = len(words)
    print wordCount
 
text.close()
text = open("rainfall.txt", "r") for t in text: words = t.split() wordCount = len(words) print wordCount text.close()

You are close:

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fname = raw_input("enter a text file name: ")
 
fread = open(fname, "r")
# read the whole file into one string
text = fread.read()
fread.close()
 
# split the whole text string into words at "white-spaces"
word_list = text.split()
word_count = len(word_list)
print word_count
fname = raw_input("enter a text file name: ")

fread = open(fname, "r")
# read the whole file into one string
text = fread.read()
fread.close()

# split the whole text string into words at "white-spaces"
word_list = text.split()
word_count = len(word_list)
print word_count

Last edited by bumsfeld; Oct 12th, 2009 at 3:48 pm.

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