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Kishore Kumar
5,451 Pointsword_count
Create a function named word_count() that takes a string. Return a dictionary with each word in the string as the key and the number of times it appears as the value.
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After splitting the string how to count the occurrence of each word and put them into the dictionary with the key,value pair.
2 Answers
Haider Ali
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 24,728 PointsHi, here is my solution to the challenge.
def word_count(string): #here we define the function word_count which takes 1 argument, a string
dictionary = {} #in this line we create an empty dictionary where the words and count will be stored
a = string.split() #here, the string is split into all of the individual words and stored in the variable a
for i in a: #for each word in the variable/ list a
if i in dictionary: #if it is in the dictionary
dictionary[i] += 1 #add one to the word count
else: #however if it is not in the dictionary
dictionary[i] = 1 #add it to the dictionary and set the word count to 1
return dictionary #finally, we return the dictionary
I hope my explanation was clear enough and that you understand now!
Kishore Kumar
5,451 PointsAwesome. Thanks! Haider for the descriptions and the code. K