Finding the Frequency of a Word in a Text File with Python

Have you ever needed to find out how many times a particular word appears in a text file using Python? It's a common task that can be easily accomplished with just a few lines of code.

First, we start by asking the user to enter the word whose frequency they want to find. We store this word in a variable k and initialize a counter variable count to 0.

Copy codek = input("Enter the word")
count = 0

Next, we open the text file in read mode and use the read() method to read the entire contents of the file into a string variable data.

with open("content.txt","r") as f:
    data = f.read()

Then, we use the split() method to split the string into a list of words, and use a for loop to iterate through each word. For each word, we use an if statement to check if it is equal to the word the user is interested in. If it is, we increment the count variable by 1.

for word in data.split():
    if word == k:
        count += 1

Finally, we print the value of count to display the frequency of the word in the text file.

print(count)

And that's it! With just a few lines of code, we can easily find the frequency of a word in a text file using Python.

I hope this helps clarify the logic and approach for finding the frequency of a word in a text file with Python