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

Using a Defaultdict:

from collections import defaultdict 

def read_file(fname):

    words_dict = defaultdict(int)
    fp = open(fname, 'r')
    lines = fp.readlines()
    words = []

    for line in lines:
        words += line.split(' ')

    for word in words:
        words_dict[word] += 1

    return words_dict