wordy.py

#!/usr/bin/python
"""filename: wordy.py"""

sample_file = open("sample.txt", "r")

words = sample_file.read().split()
count_and_word = {}

for word in words:
    word = word.replace(".","").replace("(", "").replace(")", "").replace(",", "").lower()

    if word not in count_and_word:
        count_and_word[word] = 1
    else:
        count_and_word[word] += 1

for word in sorted(count_and_word.keys()):
    print "{0}: {1}".format(count_and_word[word], word)