About the input() function

[sysilvy21]

When I execute the code down below in the Sublime text editor, the input() doesn’t work. I mean when I input a text and press the enter button, it doesn’t execute the code, rather it just goes to the next line.
Can someone tell me what the problem is?

# counting the words in a file and finding the most frequent word
name = input('Enter file: ')
handle = open(name)

counts = dict()
for line in handle:
	words = line.split()
	for word in words:
		counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1

bigcount = None
bigword = None
for word,count in counts.items():
	if bigcount is None or count > bigcount:
		bigword = word
		bigcount = count

print(bigword, bigcount)

[jeremy0x]

After you open the file, read from the file and store it in a variable. It’s that variable you’ll use in place of the handle variable.

Also, remember to close your file. A better option is to use the “with” block to open your file so it closes by itself.

[jeremy0x]

Here is what the beginning of your code might look like using the “with” block to open your file:

name = input('Enter file: ')
with open(name, mode="r", encoding="utf-8") as name:
    handle = name.read()

It works well this way.

[sysilvy21]

It’s still the same issue I’m facing. I think there’s some systematic problem why my codes not working. But I can’t figure out what it is

[sanity]

Does it print anything at all?

[sysilvy21]

It just prints the input text Enter file: . But when I type something as an input and press the enter button, instead of executing the next codes it just goes to the next line in output panel.

[sanity]

I’ve went and tried it myself in the sublime. Looks like it needs some additional actions to allow input work as expected. See Build broken? - Python 3 - input() - Technical Support - Sublime Forum

[jeremy0x]

I think it’s because it’s in the Sublime text editor. I ran the code in VS Code and it gave the right output - the most frequent word and the number of times it occurred.