wo.py

"""wo module. Contains function: words_occur()"""
# interface functions
def words_occur():
  """words_occur() - count the occurences of words in a file."""
  # Prompt user for the name of the file to use.
  file_name = input("Enter the name of the file: ")
  # Open the file, read it and store its words in a list.
  f = open(file_name, 'r')
  word_list = f.read().split()
  f.close()
  # Count the number of occurences of each word in the file.
  occurs_dict = {}
  for word in word_list:
    # increment the occurences count for this word
    occurs_dict[word] = occurs_dict.get(word, 0) + 1
  # Print out the results.
  print("File %s has %d words (%d are unique)" \
    % (file_name, len(word_list), len(occurs_dict)))
  print(occurs_dict)
if __name__ == '__main__':
  words_occur()