little project

main.py

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+def main():
+    book_path = "books/frankenstein.txt"
+    text = get_book_text(book_path)
+    print(text)
+    print(get_word_count(text))
+    dic = get_char_frequency(text)
+    print("--- Begin report of books/frankenstein.txt ---")
+    print(f" {get_word_count(text)} words found in the document")
+    dic2  = [{
+        'char' : c , 'count': dic[c]
+        }
+        for c in dic
+        ]
+    def sort_on(dict):
+        return dict['count']
+    dic2.sort(reverse=True,key=sort_on)
+    for d in dic2:
+        char = d['char']
+        count = d['count']
+        if char.isalpha():
+            print(f"The {char} character was found {count} times")
+    print("--- End report ---")
+def get_word_count(text):
+    return len(text.split())
+
+def get_char_frequency(text):
+    text = text.lower()
+    dic = {}
+    for c in text:
+        if c in dic:
+            dic[c]+=1
+        else:
+            dic[c] = 1
+    return dic
+
+def get_book_text(path):
+    with open(path) as f:
+        return f.read()
+
+
+main()