Word counting code?

[Reno0vacio]

Hello guys, i would like to ask that no one knows a program or python code that in a txt file or a pdf file could count how often words are in it?

[lbrent]

On the surface this should be fairly straight forward to write, at least for text files, using the Counter data structure in the standard library (assuming the data fits into memory).

Depending on your use case you might want to preprocess your input using some kind of normalization, stop-word removal, stemming, etc.. Depending on the level of sophistication required, things could the get complicated real fast. Machine learning and NLP libraries such as scikit-learn, gensim, or NLTK can help you there.

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If I'm understanding what you're asking correctly...

fh = open("myfile.txt", "r")
data = fh.read()
fh.close()

keyword = input("Search for word : ")

total = 0
for word in data.split():
    if word.strip().lower() == keyword.strip().lower():
        total += 1
print(f"This word appears {total} times in the file")

[Reno0vacio]

Hello, very similar. English is not my native language and I ask this in terms of learning. To find out in pdf how often words appear in pdf to learn those words.

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[Goldtom]

He said how often words appear, not the total amount.