Question

I am running the following code to count how many times a word occured in a text file.

def print_words(filename):
    f = open(filename, 'rU')
    dict={}
    for line in f:
       words=line.split()
       for word in words:
          if dict.get(word):
              dict[word]=dict[word]+1
          else: 
              dict[word]=1
    ke = sorted(dict.keys())
    for k, v in ke: print k, v

The dictionary file should hold each word and its count. I was able to get that working fine. But I failed to sort the

Answer 1

sorted(dict.keys()) returns a sorted list of just the keys. Your for loop is incorrectly expecting to find the values in the same list. Try the code below instead:

for k in ke:
    print k, dict[k]