[Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem

[Roelof Wobben]

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> From: rwobben at hotmail.com
> To: joel.goldstick at gmail.com
> Subject: RE: [Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:43:42 +0000
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>> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:28:10 -0400
>> From: joel.goldstick at gmail.com
>> To: tutor at python.org
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem
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>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Roelof Wobben
>>> wrote:
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>> I offer my solution. I didn't bother to make every word lower case,
>> and I think that would improve the result
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>> Please offer critique, improvements
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>> Some explaination:
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>> line 5 -- I read the complete text into full_text, while first
>> replacing -- with a space
>> line 7 -- I split the full text string into words
>> lines 8 - 15 -- Word by word I strip all sorts of characters that
>> aren't in words from the front and back of each 'word'
>> lines 11 - 14 -- this is EAFP -- try to add one to the bin with that
>> word, if no such bin, make it and give it 1
>> lines 16, 17 -- since dicts don't sort, sort on the keys then loop thru
>> the keys to print out the key (word) and the count
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>> 1 #! /usr/bin/env python
>> 2
>> 3 word_count = {}
>> 4 file = open ('alice_in_wonderland.txt', 'r')
>> 5 full_text = file.read().replace('--',' ')
>> 6
>> 7 full_text_words = full_text.split()
>> 8 for words in full_text_words:
>> 9 stripped_words = words.strip(".,!?'`\"- ();:")
>> 10 ##print stripped_words
>> 11 try:
>> 12 word_count[stripped_words] += 1
>> 13 except KeyError:
>> 14 word_count[stripped_words] = 1
>> 15
>> 16 ordered_keys = word_count.keys()
>> 17 ordered_keys.sort()
>> 18 ##print ordered_keys
>> 19 print "All the words and their frequency in 'alice in wonderland'"
>> 20 for k in ordered_keys:
>> 21 print k, word_count[k]
>> 22
>> --
>> Joel Goldstick
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Hello Joel,

Your solution works.
Im getting grazy. I tried it two days with strip and get a eof error message and now no messages.

Roelof