Python Assignment Reading and Writing Files

Use comments to decribe your code

Open a file.

Type the following code:

fhand = open(aFile.txt)

print fhand

What do you see?

To see the contents of the file type:

for line in fhand:

print line

Counting tokens (in our case, words) in a file

words = 0

fhand = open('aFile2.txt')

for line in fhand:

print line # Use for development then remove

ln = line.split() # Transform a line of a file into a list

words += len(ln) # Returns the length of a list

print words # Use for development then remove

print Word count = , words # Print outside of the loop