Word count from a txt file program

Question

I am counting word of a txt file with the following code:

#!/usr/bin/python file=open("D:\\zzzz\\names2.txt","r+") wordcount={} for word in file.read().split():     if word not in wordcount:         wordcount[word] = 1     else:         wordcount[word] += 1 print (word,wordcount) file.close(); 

this is giving me the output like this:

>>>  goat {'goat': 2, 'cow': 1, 'Dog': 1, 'lion': 1, 'snake': 1, 'horse': 1, '': 1, 'tiger': 1, 'cat': 2, 'dog': 1} 

but I want the output in the following manner:

word  wordcount goat    2 cow     1 dog     1..... 

Also I am getting an extra symbol in the output (). How can I remove this?

Answer 1

The funny symbols you're encountering are a UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark). To get rid of them, open the file using the correct encoding (I'm assuming you're on Python 3):

file = open(r"D:\zzzz\names2.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8-sig") 

Furthermore, for counting, you can use collections.Counter:

from collections import Counter wordcount = Counter(file.read().split()) 

Display them with:

>>> for item in wordcount.items(): print("{}\t{}".format(*item)) ... snake   1 lion    2 goat    2 horse   3 

Answer 2

#!/usr/bin/python file=open("D:\\zzzz\\names2.txt","r+") wordcount={} for word in file.read().split():     if word not in wordcount:         wordcount[word] = 1     else:         wordcount[word] += 1 for k,v in wordcount.items():     print k, v