The code snippet takes a paragraph as input from the user, converts it to lowercase, splits it into individual words, and counts the occurrences of each word. It then returns a dictionary with the word counts.

Word Count in Paragraph.md

Word Count in Paragraph

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def count_words_in_paragraph(paragraph):
    # Convert paragraph to lowercase for case-insensitive counting
    paragraph = paragraph.lower()

    # Split paragraph into individual words
    words = paragraph.split()

    # Create an empty dictionary to store word counts
    word_counts = {}

    # Iterate through each word in the paragraph
    for word in words:
        # Remove leading and trailing punctuation from word
        word = word.strip(".,!?")

        # Skip empty words (occurs when there are multiple spaces between words)
        if word == "":
            continue

        # Check if word already exists in word_counts dictionary
        if word in word_counts:
            # Increment the count of the word
            word_counts[word] += 1
        else:
            # Add the word to the dictionary with an initial count of 1
            word_counts[word] = 1

    # Return the dictionary of word counts
    return word_counts

# Get input from user
paragraph = input("Insert paragraph: ")

# Count the occurrences of each word in the paragraph
word_counts = count_words_in_paragraph(paragraph)

# Print the result
print(word_counts)

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Type	Code Snippet ( .py )
Associated Tags	Word counts Case-insensitive counting Word counting String manipulation User input Python function Dictionary creation Text processing Data analysis pandas Word Count Case-insensitive Split Paragraph Word Counts Dictionary Empty Words Increment Count Initial Count User Input Print Result
💡 Smart Description	This code counts the number of occurrences in a given paragraph using lowercase for case-insensitive counting. It also creates an empty dictionary to store word counts, adds any leading and trailing punctuation from each word if there are multiple spaces between words The code snippet takes a paragraph as input from the user, converts it to lowercase, splits it into individual words, and counts the occurrences of each word. It then returns a dictionary with the word counts.
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