Question

Consider the file romeo.txt. What is the most common word length (ignoring the punctuation of the first and last character of each group of characters)?

Answer 1

Answer:

fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")

fh = open(fname)

lst = list() # list for the desired output

for line in fh: # to read every line of file romeo.txt

word= line.rstrip().split() # to eliminate the unwanted blanks and turn the line into a list of words

for element in word: # check every element in word

if element in lst: # if element is repeated

continue # do nothing

else : # else if element is not in the list

lst.append(element) # append

lst.sort() # sort the list (de-indent indicates that you sort when the loop ends)

print lst # print the list