I'd like to jump in with a little R here- it not all that difficult in "that" either! open(con <- file('text.txt')) text = readLines(con, n= -1L) # n is numbe

I'd like to jump in with a little R here- it not all that difficult in "that" either! open(con <- file('text.txt')) text = readLines(con, n= -1L) # n is number of lines to read, -1L means read all of it words = strsplit(text,split = " ") counts = table(unlist(words)) I put this in because the good thing about R is that it provides functions for many such mathematical operations. And along with this, I'll say something any self-respecting pythoner will know- Less is better than more.