We'll also show how to handle newline characters, so you can choose whether to include them in your character count. Let us get started. Counting the number of words in a text file is straightforward.

Python program that counts the frequencies of each word in a text, and output each word with its count and line numbers where it appears. We define a word as a contiguous sequence of non-white-space ...

Python file word_count.py counts number of occurrences of words in a given file and displays it to standard output. Example of usage in command line: python word ...