Counting word frequency

freq.py

import codecs
import re

f = codecs.open('freq.txt', 'r', 'utf-8')
data = f.read()
f.close()

freq = {}
for word in re.findall(r'\w+', data, re.UNICODE):
    if not word in freq:
        freq[word] = 1
    else:
        freq[word] += 1
        
for k in freq:
    print k, freq[k]