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

Posted by Vishal vikram
Vishal vikram
606 Points

whats wrong with this code ?

values.split(" ") ?

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.
def word_count(values):
    output={}
    for value in values.split(" "):
        output[value]=values.count(value)
    return output

1 Answer

Dustin James
Dustin James
11,364 Points
Dustin James
Dustin James
11,364 Points

Vishal vikram,

You are very close. I would take the string.split() and assign that to a list first. Then I would iterate over that list for each word.

This should work for you:

def word_count(string):
    dictionary = {}
    string = str(string).lower()
    word_list = string.split()

    for word in word_list:
        dictionary[word] = word_list.count(word)
    return dictionary