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

sentence = "this is the textfile, and it is used to take words and count"

# split the sentence into words.
# iterate thorugh every word

counter_dict = {}
for word in sentence.lower().split():
# add the word into the counter_dict initalize with 0
  if word not in counter_dict:
    counter_dict[word] = 0
# increase its count by 1   
  counter_dict[word] =+ 1