Ron, <snip>is there a way to do it so > that I get a individual count of each word: > > word1 xxx > word2 xxx > words xxx > > etc.
Ron, I'm gonna throw some untested code at you. Let me know if you understand it or not: word_counts = {} for line in f: for word in line.split(): if word in word_counts: word_counts[word] += 1 else: word_counts[word] = 1 for word in word_counts: print "%s %d" % (word, word_counts[word]) Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor