Pythonian · May 28, 2022 13:28 · May 28, 2022
diff --git a/count_words.py b/count_words.py
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+import string
+
+def read_file_content(filename):
+    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
+        text = f.read()
+    return text
+
+def count_words():
+    text = read_file_content("./story.txt")
+    words = []
+    d = {}
+    for line in text:
+        line = text.rstrip()
+        line = text.translate(
+            line.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
+        words = line.split(" ")
+    for word in words:
+        d[word] = 1 if not word in d else d[word] + 1
+    print(d)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    count_words()