Please use plain text. Color hurts my eyes, does NOT help me read your program.
Emad Nawfal wrote: > Hi All, > I'm beginning to learn Python for linguistic research using the > Natural Language Toolkit. I want to write a small piece of code to > count lengths of words and print them a long with the words. I've > tried this but it does not work. What's wrong with it, and how can I > fix it? > > > phrase2 = ['colorless', 'green', 'ideas', 'sleep', 'furiously'] > lengths = {} > for word in phrase2: > lengths = lengths[word, len(word)] > > print lengths > > Thank you in anticipation > > -- > If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." George > S. Patton > ------------------------------------------------------- > Emad Soliman Nawfal > University of Arizona, Tucson > http://emadnawfal.googlepages.com > -------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Bob Gailer 510-978-4454 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor