HenHanna <henha...@devnull.tb> writes: > Given a text file of a novel (JoyceUlysses.txt) ... > > could someone give me a pretty fast (and simple) Python program that'd > give me a list of all words occurring exactly once? > > -- Also, a list of words occurring once, twice or 3 times > > > > re: hyphenated words (you can treat it anyway you like) > > but ideally, i'd treat [editor-in-chief] > [go-ahead] [pen-knife] > [know-how] [far-fetched] ... > as one unit. >
That is a famous Unix task : (Sorry, no Python) grep -o '\w*' JoyceUlysses.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -- Pieter van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list