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Gregorio Bernabel
3,412 Pointswordcount
to be honest this challenge has me by the grip , any tips guys i am a little bit thrown off by this one.
# E.g. word_count("I do not like it Sam I Am") gets back a dictionary like:
# {'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'like': 1, 'not': 1, 'am': 1}
# Lowercase the string to make it easier.
1 Answer
James Shi
8,942 PointsFirst, you want to split the string into a list of words. Then, you want to iterate through the list to count the number of occurrences of each word. One way of doing this is to increment the count of each word if it's in the dictionary, otherwise add it to the dictionary and set its count to 1. Make sure you convert the string/words to lowercase.