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to Word Count in the Python Track

Published at Jul 13 2018 · 0 comments
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Solution

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This solution was written on an old version of Exercism. The tests below might not correspond to the solution code, and the exercise may have changed since this code was written.

Given a phrase, count the occurrences of each word in that phrase.

For example for the input "olly olly in come free"

olly: 2
in: 1
come: 1
free: 1

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Running the tests

To run the tests, run the appropriate command below (why they are different):

  • Python 2.7: py.test word_count_test.py
  • Python 3.4+: pytest word_count_test.py

Alternatively, you can tell Python to run the pytest module (allowing the same command to be used regardless of Python version): python -m pytest word_count_test.py

Common pytest options

  • -v : enable verbose output
  • -x : stop running tests on first failure
  • --ff : run failures from previous test before running other test cases

For other options, see python -m pytest -h

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This is a classic toy problem, but we were reminded of it by seeing it in the Go Tour.

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word_count_test.py

import unittest

from word_count import word_count


# Tests adapted from `problem-specifications//canonical-data.json` @ v1.2.0

class WordCountTest(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_count_one_word(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('word'),
            {'word': 1}
        )

    def test_count_one_of_each(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('one of each'),
            {'one': 1, 'of': 1, 'each': 1}
        )

    def test_count_multiple_occurrences_of_a_word(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('one fish two fish red fish blue fish'),
            {'one': 1, 'fish': 4, 'two': 1, 'red': 1, 'blue': 1}
        )

    def test_cramped_list(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('one,two,three'),
            {'one': 1, 'two': 1, 'three': 1}
        )

    def test_expanded_list(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('one,\ntwo,\nthree'),
            {'one': 1, 'two': 1, 'three': 1}
        )

    def test_ignores_punctuation(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('car : carpet as java : javascript!!&@$%^&'),
            {'car': 1, 'carpet': 1, 'as': 1, 'java': 1, 'javascript': 1}
        )

    def test_include_numbers(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('testing 1 2 testing'),
            {'testing': 2, '1': 1, '2': 1}
        )

    def test_normalize_case(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('go Go GO Stop stop'),
            {'go': 3, 'stop': 2}
        )

    def test_apostrophes(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count("First: don't laugh. Then: don't cry."),
            {'first': 1, "don't": 2, 'laugh': 1, 'then': 1, 'cry': 1}
        )

    def test_quotations(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count("Joe can't tell between 'large' and large."),
            {'joe': 1, "can't": 1, 'tell': 1, 'between': 1, 'large': 2,
             'and': 1}
        )

    def test_multiple_spaces_not_detected_as_a_word(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count(' multiple   whitespaces'),
            {'multiple': 1, 'whitespaces': 1}
        )

    # Additional tests for this track

    def test_tabs(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('rah rah ah ah ah\troma roma ma\tga ga oh la la\t'
                       'want your bad romance'),
            {'rah': 2, 'ah': 3, 'roma': 2, 'ma': 1, 'ga': 2, 'oh': 1, 'la': 2,
             'want': 1, 'your': 1, 'bad': 1, 'romance': 1}
        )

    def test_non_alphanumeric(self):
        self.assertEqual(
            word_count('hey,my_spacebar_is_broken.'),
            {'hey': 1, 'my': 1, 'spacebar': 1, 'is': 1, 'broken': 1}
        )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()
from collections import Counter

# to be backwards compatible with the old Python 2.X
def decode_if_needed(string):
    try:
        return string.decode('utf-8')
    except AttributeError:
        return string

def replace_nonalpha_with_space(char):
    return char.lower() if char.isalnum() else ' '

def word_count(text):
    text = ''.join(replace_nonalpha_with_space(c) for c in decode_if_needed(text))
    return Counter(text.split())

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