6 Words count: Reading files and STDIN, iterating lists, formatting strings
“I love to count!”
--Count von Count
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Counting things is a surprisingly important programming skill. Maybe you’re trying to find out how many pizzas were sold each quarter or how many times you see certain words in a set of documents. Usually the data we deal with in computing comes to us in files, so in this chapter, we’re going to push a little further into reading files and manipulating strings. |
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We’re going to write a Python version of the venerable wc (“word count”) program. Ours will be called wc.py, and it will count the lines, words, and bytes found in ...
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