I want to find out the frequency of a specific word from a text file. Suppose in my document i have a line "this is me is is " if i input 'is' the output should 3 if my input is 'me' output should 1. i am trying this code
import re
doc1 = re.findall(r'\w+', open('E:\doc1.txt').read().lower())
words = raw_input("Input Number :: ")
docmtfrequency1 = words.count(words)
but it is not giving desired output
collections.Counter() has this covered if I understand your problem. The example from the docs would seem to match your problem.
# Tally occurrences of words in a list
cnt = Counter()
for word in ['red', 'blue', 'red', 'green', 'blue', 'blue']:
cnt[word] += 1
print cnt
# Find the ten most common words in Hamlet
import re
words = re.findall('\w+', open('hamlet.txt').read().lower())
Counter(words).most_common(10)
From the example above you should be able to do:
import re
import collections
words = re.findall('\w+', open('1976.03.txt').read().lower())
print collections.Counter(words)
naive approach to show one way.
wanted = "fish chips steak"
cnt = Counter()
words = re.findall('\w+', open('1976.03.txt').read().lower())
for word in words:
if word in wanted:
cnt[word] += 1
print cnt
doc1.count(words).words.count(words)supposed to do?