Dictionaries and Loops in Python. Using Two Nested loops

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Hey there, I’m currently on Dictionaries and Loops in Python. At 7:11 of the video we are given a script “Using Two Nested Loops”

I want to understand this but I’m given an error when I try the code myself.
TypeError: ‘>’ not supported between instances of ‘int’ and ‘dict’

#Using_Two_nested_Loops
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 = words
        bigcount = counts

print(bigword, bigcount)
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Thank you! I will do this next time, first time posting with code.

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Hello there,

Are you sure this line is correct?:

bigcount = counts
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Hi!

What happens if you use len(bigcount)?:

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Hey All, I figured it out.

it was simple. I had
counts = dict("")

and not
counts = dict()

now the file counts the words in a text document just fine. Thanks for you help :slight_smile: