counting how often the same word appears in a txt file...But my code only prints the last line entry in the txt file

[dgcosgrave at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:55:28 PM UTC+13, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
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> > Hi Iam just starting out with python...My code below changes the txt
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> > file into a list and add them to an empty dictionary and print how
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> > often the word occurs, but it only seems to recognise and print the
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> > last entry of the txt file. Any help would be great.
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> > tm =open('ask.txt', 'r')
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> > dict = {}
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> > for line in tm:
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> > 	line = line.strip()
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> > 	line = line.translate(None, '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~')
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> > 	line = line.lower()
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> > 	list = line.split(' ')
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> > for word in list:	
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> > 		if word in dict:
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> > 			count = dict[word]
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> > 			count += 1
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> > 			dict[word] = count
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> > else:
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> > 	dict[word] = 1
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> > for word, count in dict.iteritems():
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> > 	print word + ":" + str(count)
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> The "else" clause is mis-indented (rather, mis-unindented).
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> Python's "for" statement does have an optional "else" clause. That's
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> why you don't get a syntax error. The "else" clause is used after the
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> loop finishes normally. That's why it catches the last word.

Thanks for quick reply Jussi...indentation fixed the problem :-)