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Input is a string—a paragraph of text. One of the paragraphs above would be fine.
Output is a report listing how many words there are with X letters, like:
10 words with 1 letter
20 words with 2 letters
7 words with 3 letters
15 words with 4 letters, etc.
| from collections import defaultdict | |
| import re | |
| def print_word_counts(text: str="") -> None: | |
| words = re.split("[\W_]+", text) | |
| length_counts = defaultdict(int) | |
| for word in words: | |
| length_counts[len(word)] += 1 | |
| for length in sorted(length_counts.keys()): | |
| print( | |
| f"{length_counts[length]} word{'s' if length_counts[length] != 1 else ''}" | |
| f"with {length} letter{'s' if length != 1 else ''}" | |
| ) |