Download and save ACT2-3.py
. Open it in IDLE
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readMobyDick()
. Make sure you understand the following line:
fileString = fileString[0:1000]
CountWordsInMobyDick()
. Make sure you understand the following lines:
for word in myList: count = count + 1
countWordsInMobyDick()
. What's your answer?readMobyDick()
to count all the words in MobyDick (hint: one of the lines is a print statement, which technically has no bearing on how the rest of the function executes). Press F5 again and run countWordsInMobyDick()
again. What's your answer?Do this activity with a partner. You don't have to turn anything in.
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