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I am trying to compute some lexical statistics from a given text. For instance, how many lines, sentences, words, how many times a given character is repeated. Can anyone help me with this?

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I am trying to compute some lexical statistics from a given text. For instance, how many lines, sentences, words, how many times a given character is repeated. Can anyone help me with this?

Yes this is easy to do in python. A quick way to get the number of lines would be to read the file using readlines , which stores the contents in a list. Each element of the list is a single line of the file, so in order to get the number of lines, simply read the len of the list.

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You can also look into the the code snippet called "Story Statistics" that creates dictionaries (Python containers) of words and characters in a story text. Just amazing what you can do with those dictionaries.

See: http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet228125.html

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