Coupla nits: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:39:30 -0500, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from string import punctuation > from time import time > <snip> > > words = open(r'D:\Personal\Tutor\ArtOfWar.txt').read().split()
Another advantage of the first method is that it allows a more elegant word counting algorithm if you choose not to read the entire file into memory. It's a better general practice to consume lines from a file via the "for line in f" idiom. > words = [ word.strip(punctuation) for word in words ] And, be careful with this - punctuation does not include whitespace characters. Although that is no problem in this example, because split() strips its component strings automatically, people should be aware that punctuation won't work on strings that haven't had their whitespace stripped. Otherwise though, good stuff. Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
