V2. Attempt at converting into Classes. L12 Problem 7 - "present an angle of the data (words.txt) that you find interesting".

L12 Problem 7 - V2

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()

class countLengths(object):
 
    def __init__(self):
        self.maxLen = 0
        self.minLen = 0

    def maxLength(self, wordList):
        for i in wordList:
            if len(i) > self.maxLen:
                self.maxLen = len(i)
        return self.maxLen

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

    def makeLenList(self, maxLen, minLen):
        self.thisLenList = []
        self.countIt = 0
        self.thisLen = self.minLen
        while self.thisLen >= self.minLen and self.thisLen <= self.maxLen:
            for i in wordList:
                if len(i) == self.thisLen:
                    self.countIt += 1
            self.thisLenList.append(self.thisLen)
            self.thisLen += 1
        return self.thisLenList
 
    def makeCountList(self, maxLen, minLen):
        self.countItList = []
        self.countIt = 0
        self.thisLen = self.minLen
        while self.thisLen >= self.minLen and self.thisLen <= self.maxLen:
            for i in wordList:
                if len(i) == self.thisLen:
                    self.countIt += 1
            self.countItList.append(self.countIt)
            self.thisLen += 1
            self.countIt = 0
        return self.countItList
 
    def checkSum(self, wordList):
        self.sum = 0
        for j in range(0, len(self.countItList)):
            self.sum += self.countItList[j]
        if self.sum != len(wordList):
            return "Not matching up!"
        else:
            return "All good!"

    def plotThis(self):
        pylab.figure(1)
        pylab.plot(self.thisLenList, self.countItList)
        pylab.title('Number of Words by Word Length in the words.txt File')
        pylab.xlabel('Length of Words')
        pylab.ylabel('Count')
        pylab.show()
        #pylab.savefig('L12_P7_graph') 

# Testing
c = countLengths()
maxLen = c.maxLength(wordList)
print maxLen
minLen = c.minLength(wordList)
print minLen
makeLenList = c.makeLenList(maxLen, minLen)
print makeLenList
makeCountList = c.makeCountList(maxLen, minLen)
print makeCountList
checkSum = c.checkSum(wordList)
print checkSum
plotThis = c.plotThis()