Counting Words from a File
Explore how to build a simple Python word counter by reading text files and utilizing string methods such as split and len. Understand the process of breaking text into words and counting them to develop basic text analysis skills.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Previously, we learned how to read a file and then print it onto the screen. Now, let’s take another step forward and count the number of words present in a file. Let’s look at the code widget at the end of the lesson.
Lines 3-5 should be familiar by now. First, we’ll open the file, ...