On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Cathy James wrote:
Dear Python Experts,First, I'd like to convey my appreciation to you all for your support and contributions. I am a Python newborn and need help with my function. I commented on my program as to what it should do, but nothing is printing. I know I am off, but not sure where. Please help:( import string def fileProcess(filename): """Call the program with an argument, it should treat the argument as a filename, splitting it up into words, and computes the length of each word. print a table showing the word count for each of the word lengths that has been encountered. Example: Length Count 1 16 2 267 3 267 4 169 >>>"&" Length Count 0 0 >>> >>>"right." Length Count 5 10 """ freq = [] #empty dict to accumulate words and word length filename=open('declaration.txt, r') for line in filename: punc = string.punctuation + string.whitespace#use Python's built-in punctuation and whiitespace for i, word in enumerate (line.replace (punc, "").lower().split()): if word in freq: freq[word] +=1 #increment current count if word already in dict else: freq[word] = 0 #if punctuation encountered, frequency=0 word length = 0 for word in freq.items(): print("Length /t"+"Count/n"+ freq[word],+'/t' + len(word))#print word count and length of word separated by a tab #Thanks in advance, CJ.
You create a function fileProcess() with several bugs in it. But you never call it, so the bugs are irrelevant.
The script does precisely nothing. DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
