On Sat 24. Jun 2017 at 13:27, Mark Byrne <mbyrne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A problem (possibly the problem) is the lines which use the get function: > count = frequency.get(word,0) > > Since the dictionary is empty at the start of the loop, the get function is > passing a value of 0 to count and count1. > The subsequent updates to the dictionary are applying a value of zero > > As a result, the file being written to contains count values of 0 for each > word. > > Possible fix is to replace this: > > count = frequency.get(word,0) > count1 = frequency.get(word1,0) > if word1 == word: > frequency[word] = count + count1 > else: > frequency[word] = count > > with this: > > if word1 == word: > if word in frequency: > frequency[word] += 1 > else: > frequency[word] = 1 > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
