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:

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Answer 1

You're iterating over every line and calling Counter each time. You want Counter to run over the entire file. Try:

from collections import Counter

with open("TEST.txt", "r") as f:
    # Used file context read and save into contents
    contents = f.read().split()
print Counter(contents)