gistfile1.py

import string

import csv

"""
fil = open('C:\\Python27\\README.txt')
new_file = open('C:\Python27\\freq_list.txt', 'w')
"""

fil = open("/Users/StefanCelMare/Desktop/PythonReadme.txt")
#fil = 'asfdaskfj1231234!@#$!@#$!adfasdf'
new_file = open('/Users/StefanCelMare/Desktop/freq_list.csv', 'w')

text = fil.read()
fil.close()

textClean = ''
for i in text:
    if i.isalpha() or i.isspace():
        textClean+=i

textLow = string.lower(textClean)
textVar = textLow.split()
newText = ''

for w in textVar:
    if w not in newText.split():
        w+=' '
        newText+=w
        
textSplit = newText.split()

freq_list = ''
for w in newText.split():
    wordCount = textVar.count(w)
    if wordCount > 1:
        print w, wordCount
    freq_list = freq_list + w + ',' + str(wordCount) + '\n'

new_file.write(freq_list)