How do I get access to the numbers or score that i've given the words in my dictionary

Question

This is the code:

word_count = {}

with open(file, "r") as fi:
    for line in fi:
        words = line.split()  

        for word in words:
            word = word.lower()

            if word not in word_count: 
                word_count[word] = 0 

            word_count[word] += 1

    print(word_count)

Output:

{'thou': 2, 'ancient,': 1, 'free': 1}

I want to somehow get access to the numbers 2,1 and 1 so I can get the average usage of the words in my text file. So my question is how do I do it?

I've tried to use the dictionary somehow to add up the numbers in the dictionary but in it, I have both the words and the numbers so I get "TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable".

Do you want to add 2+1+1 and divide by 3? So from your example, get 1.33? — Giuseppe La Gualano, Oct 30 '22 at 22:31
You should remove the carriage returns caused by line reading, thus should have `words = line.rtrip().split()` — DarrylG, Oct 30 '22 at 22:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '22 at 22:31

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You should use the dict.values() method. Like this:

word_freq = {'thou': 2, 'ancient,': 1, 'free': 1}

avg = sum(word_freq.values())/len(word_freq)
print(avg)

answered Oct 30 '22 at 22:31

Michael M.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '22 at 22:30

I want to somehow get access to the numbers 2,1 and 1 so I can get the average usage of the words in my text file. So my question is how do I do it?

Well, there are many ways to do this, but I think the fastest way is this one:

total = sum(word_count.values())

Then to get the average simply use the / operator.

Onurgule · Answer 3 · 2022-10-30T22:39:06.880

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You can also use loop with dicts if you want to change anything with the value.

sum_words = 0
for i in word_count.values():
    print(i)
    sum_words += i
print("Avg: " + str(sum_words/len(word_count)))

edited Oct 30 '22 at 22:39

answered Oct 30 '22 at 22:32

Onurgule

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Well... no, you're overwriting the same "sum" function that you should have used. Never do this. – FLAK-ZOSO Oct 30 '22 at 22:32

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 30 '22 at 22:40

The most basic way to access values in a dictionary is by indexing it

thou_count = word_count['thou']

If you aren't sure if a key is in your dictionary and you want to try to access it you can use get and provide a default value

thee_count = word_count.get('thee', -1)

If you want to get all the values, you can use word_count.values() which returns a result you can iterate through. Oftentimes though you will want to convert the result to a list

print(list(word_count.values()))

Similarly, you can access keys with word_count.keys() or you can iterate through key-value pairs using

for key, value in word_count.items():
    print(f"{key=}, {value=}")

How do I get access to the numbers or score that i've given the words in my dictionary

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