With an input file, I'm trying to lowercase the text

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Here’s what I’ve tried doing. Simply I purposely put a capital T in one of the "the"s to test out the example given. Do I possibly need to try a raw_input in? I’m only about half way through the curriculum but wanted to reach out as it’s been bugging me.

Thanks in advance! :slight_smile:

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Please post your actual code instead of a screenshot. Thanks

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Below is the code that works but I get " the 3", I want it to be 4

name = input('Enter a file name: ')
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)
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I created a file named Frog.txt, Here’s essentially what it reads.

“The little frog and the the the fox.”

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Do you want to lowercase all of the words first and then count them? That would get all 4 "the"s

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-lowercase-how-to-use-the-string-lower-function/

Or you are trying to write your own lowercase function as an exercise?

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