On 2024-05-31, Pieter van Oostrum via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > 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
Yep, that's what came to my mind (though I couldn't remember the exact grep option without looking it up). However, I assume that doesn't get you very many points on a homework assignemnt from an "Intruction to Python" class. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
