Afternoon Example for Georgetown Software Engineering Cohort II

wordcount.py

def word_count(path):

    counts = {
        'line': 0,
        'word': 0,
        'char': 0
    }

    with open(path, 'r') as f:
        for line in f:
            counts['line'] += 1
            counts['char'] += len(line)
            counts['word'] += len(line.split())

    return counts

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print word_count('shakespeare.txt')