Still new. I am trying to make a simple word count script.
I found this in the great Python Cookbook, which allows me to process
every word in a file. But how do I use it to count the items generated?
def words_of_file(thefilepath, line_to_words=str.split):
the_file = open(thefilepath)
for line in the_file:
for word in line_to_words(line):
yield word
the_file.close()
for word in words_of_file(thefilepath):
dosomethingwith(word)
The best I could come up with:
def words_of_file(thefilepath, line_to_words=str.split):
the_file = open(thefilepath)
for line in the_file:
for word in line_to_words(line):
yield word
the_file.close()
len(list(words_of_file(thefilepath)))
But that seems clunky.
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