Python – Finding word frequencies of list of words in text file

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collections.Counter() has this covered if I understand your problem.

The example from the docs would seem to match your problem.

# Tally occurrences of words in a list
cnt = Counter()
for word in ['red', 'blue', 'red', 'green', 'blue', 'blue']:
    cnt[word] += 1
print cnt


# Find the ten most common words in Hamlet
import re
words = re.findall('\w+', open('hamlet.txt').read().lower())
Counter(words).most_common(10)

From the example above you should be able to do:

import re
import collections
words = re.findall('\w+', open('1976.03.txt').read().lower())
print collections.Counter(words)

EDIT naive approach to show one way.

wanted = "fish chips steak"
cnt = Counter()
words = re.findall('\w+', open('1976.03.txt').read().lower())
for word in words:
    if word in wanted:
        cnt[word] += 1
print cnt

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