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

One more function:

def wcount(filename):
    counts = dict()
    with open(filename) as file:
        a = file.read().split()
        # words = [b.rstrip() for b in a]
    for word in a:
        if word in counts:
            counts[word] += 1
        else:
            counts[word] = 1
    return counts