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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Word Count

angel moreta
angel moreta
2,912 Points
Posted by angel moreta
angel moreta
2,912 Points

Hi, I need someone to guide me a little with this problem :)

ok, I'm trying to find the way to count for every word that is repeated inside my string. please read my code carefully, i've been struggling since this morning with this problem but i know i am not too far to get through it :)

here's my output in my terminal: {'i': 8, 'do': 3, 'not': 4, 'like': 5, 'it': 6, 'sam': 7, 'am': 9} <----- i was also wondering why is giving me those values.

wordcount.py 
# E.g. word_count("I do not like it Sam I Am") gets back a dictionary like:
# {'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'like': 1, 'not': 1, 'am': 1}
# Lowercase the string to make it easier.
strg = "I do not like it Sam I Am".lower()
strg = strg.split()

def word_count(string):
    value = 1
    empty_dict = {}

    for each_word in string:
        if each_word == each_word:
            value +=1
        if each_word in string: 
            filled_key = empty_dict.update({each_word:value}) 
        else:
            pass

    return empty_dict




print(word_count(strg))

1 Answer

Bryan Reed
Bryan Reed
11,747 Points
Bryan Reed
Bryan Reed
11,747 Points

Instead of incrementing a value variable per for loop iteration I would use the count() function on each word against the sentence list. :D

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/list_count.htm

angel moreta
angel moreta
2,912 Points
angel moreta
angel moreta
2,912 Points

Dude !!!!! you are the man, i didnt even know we had such func in python thank you so much, i solved the problem :DDDD