Re: From JoyceUlysses.txt -- words occurring exactly once
HenHanna 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 www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: A technique from a chatbot
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> It can lead to errors:
>
> def first_word_beginning_with_e( list_ ):
> for word in list_:
> if word[ 0 ]== 'e': return word
> something_to_be_done_at_the_end_of_this_function()
>
> The call sometimes will not be executed here!
> So, "return" is similar to "break" in that regard.
That can be solved with finally:
def first_word_beginning_with_e( list_ ):
try:
for word in list_:
if word[ 0 ]== 'e': return word
finally:
print("something_to_be_done_at_the_end_of_this_function()")
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