Re: [Tutor] creat a program that reads frequency of words in file

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/06/15 02:35, Stephanie Quiles wrote: import pickle You don;t need pickle def main(): right = 0 wrong = 0 capitals = {'Alabama': 'Montgomery', 'Alaska': 'Juneau', \ \ "Arizona": 'Phoenix', \ You don't need the \ Inside {} you can put newlines as much a

Re: [Tutor] creat a program that reads frequency of words in file

2015-06-02 Thread Stephanie Quiles
thanks on the help. I am now stuck on this program for quizzing on state capitals. Do you mind taking a look please? I can’t get it to tell me the answer is incorrect it just keeps asking me for capitals whether the answer is right or wrong. It also is not giving me correct counts for correct an

Re: [Tutor] creat a program that reads frequency of words in file

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/06/15 00:42, Alan Gauld wrote: forwordintext: ifwordnot inwords: words[word] =1 else: words[word] +=1 Look into the setdefault() method of dictionaries. It can replace the if/else above. On reflec

Re: [Tutor] creat a program that reads frequency of words in file

2015-06-01 Thread Alan Gauld
I've CCd the list. Please use reply all when responding to the list. Also please use plain text as HTML/RTF doesn't work on all systems and code in particular often gets mangled. On 01/06/15 23:59, Stephanie Quiles wrote: Hello again, here is the final code… I think :) please see below. Is this

Re: [Tutor] creat a program that reads frequency of words in file :p:

2015-06-01 Thread Thomas C. Hicks
On 06/01/2015 05:56 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: if text in line: count += 1 print("This word appears", count, "times in the file") And this is, of course, completely off track. You need to split the line into its separate words and store each word into the dictionary. OP may want

Re: [Tutor] creat a program that reads frequency of words in file

2015-06-01 Thread Alan Gauld
On 01/06/15 05:01, Stephanie Quiles wrote: Hello. i need serious help. i am a very very new python programmer. Welcome. Write a program that reads the contents of a text file. OK, Well you have done that bit OK. The program should create a dictionary in which the keys are the individual w