V1. L12 Problem 7 - "present an angle of the data (words.txt) that you find interesting".

L12 Problem 7 - V1

import random
import string
import pylab

WORDLIST_FILENAME = "words.txt"

def loadWords():
    print "Loading word list from file..."
    # inFile: file
    inFile = open(WORDLIST_FILENAME, 'r', 0)
    # line: string
    line = inFile.readline()
    # wordlist: list of strings
    wordlist = string.split(line)
    print "  ", len(wordlist), "words loaded."
    return wordlist

wordList = loadWords()

def maxLength(wordList):
    maxLen = 0
    for i in wordList:
        if len(i) > maxLen:
            maxLen = len(i)
    return maxLen

maxLen = maxLength(wordList)

def minLength(wordList):
    minLen = maxLen
    for i in wordList:
        if len(i) < minLen:
            minLen = len(i)
    return minLen

minLen = minLength(wordList)

def countLengths(wordList):
    thisLen = minLen
    countIt = 0
    thisLenList = []
    countItList = []
    sum = 0
    while thisLen >= minLen and thisLen <= maxLen:
        for i in wordList:
            if len(i) == thisLen:
                countIt += 1
        thisLenList.append(thisLen)
        countItList.append(countIt)
        thisLen += 1
        countIt = 0
    for j in range(0, len(countItList)):
        sum += countItList[j]
    if sum != len(wordList):
        print "Not matching up!"
    else:
      pylab.figure(1)
      pylab.plot(thisLenList, countItList)
      pylab.title('Number of Words by Word Length in the words.txt File')
      pylab.xlabel('Length of Words')
      pylab.ylabel('Count')
      pylab.savefig('L12_P7_graph')