Python - Finding word frequencies of list of words in text file

Question

I am trying to speed up my project to count word frequencies. I have 360+ text files, and I need to get the total number of words and the number of times each word from anot

Answer 1

A simple functional code to count word frequencies in a text file:

{
import string

def process_file(filename):
hist = dict()
f = open(filename,'rb')
for line in f:
    process_line(line,hist)
return hist

def process_line(line,hist):

line = line.replace('-','.')

for word in line.split():
    word = word.strip(string.punctuation + string.whitespace)
    word.lower()

    hist[word] = hist.get(word,0)+1

hist = process_file(filename)
print hist
}