gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

""" This code takes a wordlist and records how many occurrences of this word are
in the file. It then prints a sorted list of words and their frequency to
the console. """
wl = {}

for line in file('wordlist.txt'):
    line = line.replace("\"", '').replace('.','').replace('!','').replace(',','').replace(';','').replace('?','')
    for word in line.split(' '):
        word = word.lower().strip()
        if word != "":
            wl[word] = wl.get(word, 0) + 1 # Increment it

sorted_words = []        
for key in wl.keys():
    sorted_words.append((key, wl[key]))

sorted_words.sort()

# Print out everything
print "Unique words found: %d" % len(sorted_words)
print "Total words:        %d" % sum([value for _, value in sorted_words])
for word, freq in sorted_words:
    print "%15s  %d" % (word, freq)