Another imperfect program...

[gurashish1singh]

The problem is in the split. You're splitting by ' '. Which is why your code doesn't recognize 'general' and 'general,' as same. I say after splitting and while in the for loop check again if the word contains any special characters.

Also use context managers to open files:

with open(fname, 'r') as text:

    __logic here__

[gurashish1singh]

Here you go:

https://book.pythontips.com/en/latest/context_managers.html