Word Frequency

Directions

In this project, you will use open to read in a text file and calculate the frequency of words in that file.

To calculate the frequency of words, you must:

• remove punctuation
• normalize all words to lowercase
• remove "stop words" -- words used so frequently they are ignored
• go through the file word by word and keep a count of how often each word is used

When your program is complete, you should be able to run

python3 word_frequency.py praise_song_for_the_day.txt

and get a printed report showing the number of times each word appears in that file, formatted like this:

     we | 7 *******
   each | 5 *****
     or | 5 *****
   need | 5 *****
   love | 5 *****
  about | 4 ****
 praise | 4 ****
   song | 4 ****
    day | 3 ***
    our | 3 ***

Starter Files

A starting program is located in word_frequency.py. There are also text files that you can use as your input files.

Resources

• The dict type in Python 3
• f-strings in Python 3

Bibliography

• Elizabeth Alexander, Praise Song for the Day
• Richard Blanco, One Today
• Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb