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
Try this:
for word in phrase2:
lengths[word] = len(word)
What you have now is an attempt to get a dictionary value using word,
len(word) as a key and replace the dictionary with that value. Should
fail with KeyError.
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