pycounts.pycounts

Module Contents

Functions

load_text(input_file)	Load text from a text file and return as a string.
clean_text(text)	Lowercase and remove punctuation from a string.
count_words(input_file)	Count words in a text file.

pycounts.pycounts.load_text(input_file)

Load text from a text file and return as a string.

Parameters

input_file (str) – Path to text file.

Returns

Text file contents.

Return type

str

Examples

>>> load_text("text.txt")

pycounts.pycounts.clean_text(text)

Lowercase and remove punctuation from a string.

Parameters

text (str) – Text to clean.

Returns

Cleaned text.

Return type

str

Examples

>>> clean_text("Early optimization is the root of all evil!")
'early optimization is the root of all evil'

pycounts.pycounts.count_words(input_file)

Count words in a text file.

Words are made lowercase and punctuation is removed before counting.

Parameters

input_file (str) – Path to text file.

Returns

dict-like object where keys are words and values are their counts.

Return type

collections.Counter

Examples

>>> count_words("text.txt")