Counting word frequency and making a dictionary from it

Question

I want to take every word from a text file, and count the word frequency in a dictionary.

Example: \'this is the textfile, and it is used to take words and co

Answer 1

from collections import Counter
t = 'this is the textfile, and it is used to take words and count'

dict(Counter(t.split()))
>>> {'and': 2, 'is': 2, 'count': 1, 'used': 1, 'this': 1, 'it': 1, 'to': 1, 'take': 1, 'words': 1, 'the': 1, 'textfile,': 1}

Or better with removing punctuation before counting:

dict(Counter(t.replace(',', '').replace('.', '').split()))
>>> {'and': 2, 'is': 2, 'count': 1, 'used': 1, 'this': 1, 'it': 1, 'to': 1, 'take': 1, 'words': 1, 'the': 1, 'textfile': 1}