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 Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:21:57 AM UTC+13, Thomas Bach wrote:
> Hi,
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> just as a side-note
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:45:13AM -0800, :
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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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> 
> When you got the indentation and names right, you can restate this as
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> import collections
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> counter = collections.Counter(words)
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> in Python 2.7 or as
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> import collections
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> counter = collections.defaultdict(int)
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> for word in words:
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>     counter[word] += 1
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> in Python 2.6
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> Regards,
> 
> 	Thomas.

Thanks Thomas for your time... using 2.7 great!