Python - Counting Words In A Text File

Question

I\'m new to Python and am working on a program that will count the instances of words in a simple text file. The program and the text file will be read from the command line

Answer 1

What you did looks fine to me, one could also use collections.Counter (assuming you are python 2.7 or newer) to get a bit more information like the number of each word. My solution would look like this, probably some improvement possible.

import sys
from collections import Counter
lines = open(sys.argv[1], 'r').readlines()
c = Counter()
for line in lines:
    for work in line.strip().split():
        c.update(work)
for ind in c:
    print ind, c[ind]