Re: From JoyceUlysses.txt -- words occurring exactly once

On 2024-05-31, Pieter van Oostrum via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:

HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> writes:
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Given a text file of a novel (JoyceUlysses.txt) ...
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could someone give me a pretty fast (and simple) Python program that'd
give me a list of all words occurring exactly once?
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              -- Also, a list of words occurring once, twice or 3 times
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re: hyphenated words        (you can treat it anyway you like)
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       but ideally, i'd treat  [editor-in-chief]
                               [go-ahead]  [pen-knife]
                               [know-how]  [far-fetched] ...
       as one unit.
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That is a famous Unix task : (Sorry, no Python)
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grep -o '\w*' JoyceUlysses.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Yep, that's what came to my mind (though I couldn't remember the exact
grep option without looking it up).  However, I assume that doesn't
get you very many points on a homework assignemnt from an "Intruction
to Python" class.