[Tutor] words and lengths
Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
Wed May 16 23:03:49 CEST 2007
Please use plain text. Color hurts my eyes, does NOT help me read your
program.
Emad Nawfal wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm beginning to learn Python for linguistic research using the
> Natural Language Toolkit. I want to write a small piece of code to
> count lengths of words and print them a long with the words. I've
> tried this but it does not work. What's wrong with it, and how can I
> fix it?
>
>
> phrase2 = ['colorless', 'green', 'ideas', 'sleep', 'furiously']
> lengths = {}
> for word in phrase2:
> lengths = lengths[word, len(word)]
>
> print lengths
>
> Thank you in anticipation
>
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> S. Patton
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> Emad Soliman Nawfal
> University of Arizona, Tucson
> http://emadnawfal.googlepages.com
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