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Alperen Guman
6,552 PointsElement count in list without count() function weird behaviour
Code:
def word_count(x):
word_count_dict = {}
x = x.lower()
string_to_words = x.split(' ')
for words in string_to_words:
n = 0
while True:
try:
string_to_words.remove(words)
n = n + 1
except ValueError:
break
word_count_dict.update({words : n })
print (word_count_dict)
word_count('some words more than others alperen guman')
Aim:
Getting a sentence string, making it lower case, splitting it into words and adding this to a list, then for every word running a loop to see how many times that word is in the original sentence and writing the resulting information to a dictionary.
Problem:
The code above should work, and it does work for the most part, but it skips over every other word. I can't figure out why. Help would be appreciated.
1 Answer
Alperen Guman
6,552 PointsNevermind, found the solution. It was the fact that I was removing from the list I'm looping that was causing the problem. Here's a correct version of the code:
def word_count(x):
word_count_dict = {}
x = x.lower()
string_to_words = x.split(' ')
string_to_words_new = string_to_words[:]
for words in string_to_words:
n = 0
while True:
try:
string_to_words_new.remove(words)
n = n + 1
except ValueError:
break
word_count_dict.update({words : n })
string_to_words_new = string_to_words[:]
print (word_count_dict)
word_count('some words more than others alperen guman')