Another take on a simple word counter app with Python with some regex practice for good measure. Users enter a TXT file, specific a word to search, and the app returns the number of time that word occurs in the file

txt_word_counter.py

import re
from collections import Counter

def main():
    print_header()
    user_file = input("Enter the absolute path for your TXT file:\n\n")
    print()
    wc = get_word_counter(user_file)
    print()
    get_count_of_word(wc)

def print_header():
    print("-".center(79, "-"))
    print()
    print(" Word Counter ".center(79))
    print()
    print("-".center(79, "-"))
    print()
    
def get_word_counter(filename):
    """Opens a TXT file and returns a Counter object of words"""
    with open(filename, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
        words = re.findall(r"\w+", f.read().lower())
        word_count = Counter(words)
    return word_count

def get_count_of_word(counter_object):
    """Queries the Counter object for a specific word provided by the user"""
    user_input = input("What word would you like to query?\n\n").lower()
    print()
    if user_input in counter_object:
        print(f"The word '{user_input}' appears " \
              f"{counter_object[user_input]} times " \
              "in your TXT file.")
    else:
        print("The word you entered does not appear anywhere " \
              "in your TXT file.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()