reading-text-files

# Read text from a file, and count the occurence of words in that text
# Example:
# count_words("The cake is done. It is a big cake!")
# --> {'The': 1, 'cake': 1, 'is': 2, 'done.': 1, 'It': 1, 'a': 1, 'big': 1, 'cake!': 1}

def read_file_content(filename):
    # [assignment] Add your code here
    with open(filename, 'r') as file:
        content = file.read()
    return content


def count_words():
    text = read_file_content("./story.txt")
    # [assignment] Add your code here

    # dict to hold key/value of word/number of occurrence
    words_count = {}

    # convert the string into a list
    text_to_list = text.split() #list
    # return {"as": 10, "would": 20}
    for word in text_to_list:
        words_count[word] = text_to_list.count(word)

    return words_count

words_count = count_words()
print(words_count)