Count the words in a book!

bookcount.py

import string
from collections import defaultdict
frequencies = defaultdict(int)
for line in open("book.txt"):
	for word in line.lower().translate(None, string.punctuation).split():
		frequencies[word] += 1
sortedlist = sorted(frequencies.items(), key=lambda x: (-x[1],x[0]), reverse=False)
with open('results.txt', 'w') as f:
	for item in sortedlist:
		formatted = "\"%s\": %d\n" % (item[0], int(item[1]))
		f.write(formatted)