python - find the occurrence of the word in a file

Question

I am trying to find the count of words that occured in a file. I have a text file (TEST.txt) the content of the file is as follows:

ashwin prog         


        

Answer 1

Use the update method of Counter. Example:

from collections import Counter

data = '''\
ashwin programmer india
amith programmer india'''

c = Counter()
for line in data.splitlines():
    c.update(line.split())
print(c)

Output:

Counter({'india': 2, 'programmer': 2, 'amith': 1, 'ashwin': 1})