Transform every word in string to a dict and pass how many times all the word occured as value in python

Question

I'm having trouble transforming every word of a string in a dictionary and passing how many times the word appears as the value. For example

string = 'How many times times appeared in this many times'

The dict i wanted is:

dict = {'times':3, 'many':2, 'how':1 ...}

Show your own (effort and) code properly formatted in the question. — Michael Butscher, May 19 '20 at 16:45
Does this answer your question? [How do I count unique words using counter library in python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55987421/how-do-i-count-unique-words-using-counter-library-in-python) — DarrylG, May 19 '20 at 16:48

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '20 at 16:44

3

from collections import Counter
res = dict(Counter(string.split()))
#{'How': 1, 'many': 2, 'times': 3, 'appeared': 1, 'in': 1, 'this': 1}

answered May 19 '20 at 16:44

deadshot

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '20 at 16:45

0

You can loop through the words and increment the count like so:

d = {}
for word in string.split(" "):
   d.setdefault(word, 0)
   d[word] += 1

answered May 19 '20 at 16:45

kudeh

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