Current results of "dictionary word count" programs...

[Bryan Sant]

On 3/13/06, Jonathan Ellis <jonathan at carnageblender.com> wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/python2.4
>
> import sys
>
> WORDS_FNAME = '/usr/share/dict/words'
> words = dict((line.rstrip(), 0) for line in file(WORDS_FNAME))
>
> source = len(sys.argv) > 1 and file(sys.argv[1]) or sys.stdin
> for line in source:
>     for word in line.strip().split():
>         if not word:
>             continue
>         try:
>             words[word] += 1
>         except KeyError:
>             pass
>
> for word, count in words.iteritems():
>     if count > 0:
>         print word, count

Much better!

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