On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:08 PM, bob gailer <bgai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/2010 1:50 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > [snip] > > hello Alan, >> >> Your right. Then it prints like this "'tis >> Which is not right. It must be tis. >> So the replace does not what it supposed to do. >> >> Sorry but I am now more confused. After discovering no \ in the text file > now you seem to have have a new specification, which is to get rid of the '. > > I suggest you give a clear, complete and correct problem statement. Right > now we are shooting in the dark at a moving target. > > Something like. > > Given the file alice_in_wonderland.txt, copied from url so-and-so > > Remove these characters ... > > Split into words (not letters?) where word is defined as > > Count the frequency of each word. > > > -- > Bob Gailer > 919-636-4239 > Chapel Hill NC > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > How about using str.split() to put words in a list, then run strip() over each word with the required characters to be removed ('`") -- Joel Goldstick
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