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Dictionary practice problems
Problem 1
Given a paragraph, write a function which returns the word count of each element.
- Input: "Hello I am Nick Hello"
- Output: "Hello":2, "I":1, "am":1, Nick:"1"
def wordCount(text):
counts = {}
for word in text.split():
if word not in counts:
counts[word] = 0
counts[word] += 1
return counts
paragraph = """Commodo exercitation mollit mollit culpa aute nostrud dolore. \
Ullamco et sit eiusmod anim cillum ipsum amet mollit ex occaecat aute irure. \
Occaecat eu aliqua cillum sit enim sunt. Consequat magna elit ipsum irure et."""
count = wordCount(paragraph)
print(count) {'Commodo': 1, 'exercitation': 1, 'mollit': 3, 'culpa': 1, 'aute': 2, 'nostrud': 1, 'dolore.': 1, '\\': 1, 'Ullamco': 1, 'et': 1, 'sit': 2, 'eiusmod': 1, 'anim': 1, 'cillum': 2, 'ipsum': 2, 'amet': 1, 'ex': 1, 'occaecat': 1, 'irure.': 1, 'Occaecat': 1, 'eu': 1, 'aliqua': 1, 'enim': 1, 'sunt.': 1, 'Consequat': 1, 'magna': 1, 'elit': 1, 'irure': 1, 'et.': 1}