word_count.py

import requests
import string
import re
from collections import Counter

cnt = Counter()
pp = requests.get('http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-0.txt').text
ss = requests.get('http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/161/pg161.txt').text

def only_letters(book):
    book = book.lower()
    book = re.sub(r'[^\x00-\x7F]+',' ', book)
    book = re.sub('['+string.punctuation+']', ' ', book)
    book = book.rsplit()
    return book

book_dict = Counter(only_letters(pp))