PopularWordsCounter.py

#   Cory Rahman
# Python 2.7.8
#   To use this program, place the entirety of the text to be counted in
#       a single .txt file, and target it below under #working files

#   module
import csv
from collections import Counter

#   working files
txt_file = "words.txt"
csv_file = "WordList1.csv"

#
stringText=[]
with open(txt_file, 'r') as fileVar:
    inputString=fileVar.read()
    charactersToKill="1234567890=!@#$%^&*()_+[]\;',./{}|:<>?"+'"'
    print charactersToKill
    for ch in inputString:
        if ch in charactersToKill:
            pass
        else:
            stringText.append(ch)
    words=''.join(stringText).lower().replace("\n"," ").replace("  "," ").replace("    "," ").replace("   "," ").replace("-"," ")


#   uses csv module's .reader command to break the txt file up
#   by the delimiter and storing it in the variable in_txt
wordList = words.split(' ')
print wordList

countDict=Counter(wordList)
print countDict
writer = csv.writer(open(csv_file, 'wb'))
for key, value in countDict.items():
   writer.writerow([key, value])