Word frequency count from a file with Python

Hello, I am new here to this forum, I need some help. I have written a python code to count word frequency from a file into a dictionary. However, for some reason it is counting every word more than it appears in the file:
For example, word “creating”:4, but ts frequency in the file is 3.Below is my code, I will appreciate if someone help me point out the possible error in my code.

def word_frequencies(filename="src/alice.txt"):
    d = {}
    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
        for line in f:
            line = line.lower()
            line = line.split()
            stripped = [x.strip('''!"#$%&'()*,-./:;?@[]_''') for x in line]
          

            for word in stripped:
                try:
                    d[word] += 1
                except KeyError:
                    d[word] = 1
               
    return d

it works for me. Could you post the contents of the word file?

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This is a part of the file’s content.

“creating” is indeed present 4 times in the txt file. Notice that the first occurence has upper-case initial: “Creating”. Maybe you are checking by manually searching, but you are using a case-sensitive search?

Got it. Thanks for pointing out this minor confusion. It works great now!