Python program that finds most frequent word in a .txt file, Must print word and its count

Question

As of right now, I have a function to replace the countChars function,

def countWords(lines):
  wordDict = {}
  for line in lines:
    wordList = lines.split         


        

Answer 1

Here a possible solution, not as elegant as ninjagecko's but still:

from collections import defaultdict

dicto = defaultdict(int)

with open('yourfile.txt') as f:
    for line in f:
        s_line = line.rstrip().split(',') #assuming ',' is the delimiter
        for ele in s_line:
            dicto[ele] += 1

 #dicto contians words as keys, word counts as values

 for k,v in dicto.iteritems():
     print k,v