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Hi, everyone, I was going through the python for everybody course and when I reached video 23, I tried making a word counter in a text you enter but for some reason it doesn’t work, whenever I enter the text python shuts down.
here is my code

counts = dict()
text = input('enter text')
text = text.strip
words = text.split()

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

bigcount = None
bigword = None
for word,count in counts.items:
    if bigcount == None :
        bigcount = count
        bigword = word
    else :
        bigcount = count
        bigword = word
print(counts.items)
import time
time.sleep(5)

THX in advance :slight_smile:
Edit: I am using python 3.9

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I think you are missing something here

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just edited it doesn’t work yet

counts = dict()
text = input('enter text')
text = text.strip()
words = text.split()

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

bigcount = None
bigword = None
for word,count in counts.items:
    if bigcount == None :
        bigcount = count
        bigword = word
    else :
        bigcount = count
        bigword = word
print(counts.items)
import time
time.sleep(5)
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What happens when you run it?

5

it asks for the text and when i enter it , it just shuts down

6

You are also not calling items

I would suggest you work on debugging, add a print statement between each line, find out where it stops working

7

Aren’t you getting any error? Python is pretty good at telling you if something is not correct

If the print statements not work, you can practice with a tool like https://pythontutor.com/

8

thx im looking into it now and no it doesnt show an error

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You defined text as a file handler
You cannot use .strip on a file handler , you can only use it on a string
That’s why you put it after you select a line from the file as in :

for line in text :
#at this point: line is a string containing the first line in the file you chose.
#Therefore you can use .strip and .split on it.
line=line.strip()
words=line.split()
#at this point we used .split on line the result is words: a list.
for word in words :
counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1

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