Short script to count how many times words appear on a file, you may need to change the re

countWords.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
import re, sys

if __name__ == "__main__":
  c = {}
  with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
    for l in f:
      for e in re.findall("\w+", l):
        c[e] = c.get(e, 0) + 1
  for e in sorted(c.items(), key=lambda i:i[1], reverse=True):
    print("%s %d"%e)