How to handle end‐of‐line characters

[pink_872]

I am trying to read from a txt file and counts the number of times each word appears. The problem is that it counts the EOL characters as well. I tried to use the rstrip, still it didn't do anything. So how can I handle these end-of-line characters?
Please help.

Object= open('w.txt','r')
L= Object.read().rstrip()
occurrenences={}

for word in L.split():
    occurrenences[word] = occurrenences.get(word,0)+1
    
for word in occurrenences:
    print(occurrenences[word],word)

Object.close()

[GDICommander]

On my machine (Windows), when providing a file that contains "a b c d e", I have this output:

(1, 'a')
(1, 'c')
(1, 'b')
(1, 'e')
(1, 'd')

There is no EOL character in the output, which is expected. So, the code haven't took the EOL character on my machine.

Are you running your script on another OS?

[pink_872]

On my machine (Windows), when providing a file that contains "a b c d e", I have this output:

(1, 'a')
(1, 'c')
(1, 'b')
(1, 'e')
(1, 'd')

There is no EOL character in the output, which is expected. So, the code haven't took the EOL character on my machine.

Are you running your script on another OS?

I am running on Windows 7 OS. Lets say that I had the following line in my txt file:
My \r name \r is Nana \n

I want my program to skip \n and \r. I don't want them to be counted.
I tried everything, still it didn't work.

PLEASE HELP :(

[griswolf]

Your code should just work because split() should handle all kinds of white space including various newline characters. However, you can try

import string
# ...
for word in L.split(string.whitespace):
    if word:
        occurrenences[word] = occurrenences.get(word,0)+1
#...

The extra test is because when you specify the split characters, you get empty strings if there are adjacent split characters as you have in your example.