Hello
I have attempted the wordcount.py exercise and am trying to understand the
logic behind the code.
Im trying to replay the code on the python cmd line but keep getting this
error
>>> w_count[string] = w_count[string] + 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
I was trying to recreate the scenario whereby the dict value is incremented
by 1 as in the following code, it works in the python script but not when i
manually create & populate the dict value & increment it on the pythin cmd
line, can you please explain why?
def count_words(filename):
w_count = {}
file = open(filename, 'rU')
for line in file:
w = line.split()
for string in w:
string = string.lower()
if not string in w_count:
w_count[string] = 1
else:*
** w_count[string] = w_count[string] + 1*
file.close()
return w_count
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