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Python 3 Script to Count the Number of Times a Letter Appears in a Text File
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Jun 1, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video So
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in this video I will show you a very
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simple Python utility kind of a script
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which will actually specify how many
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occurrences of each word is there inside
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a text file So now let's suppose if you
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have a text file where you have a number
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of sentences and uh if you want to get
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the total number of occurrences of a
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particular word So now let let me create
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a filet txt and uh let's suppose I just
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do hello my name is gotham I just write
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some basic
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sentences so it can contain a lot of
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text as well but I'm just giving a very
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simple example I created this filet txt
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I defined some basic sentences right
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here and then this Python script will
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automatically give the occurrences of
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this So you can put any word here I put
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G here So you just need to give the file
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name file.txt If I run this Python
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script it will give the occurrences of
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uh the G letter which is repeated inside
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this So it is saying G letter is only
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repeated one time As you can see G is
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appeared only one time You can put any
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word here Let's suppose a common word I
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put here which is
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uh a word So I want to get the
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occurrences of a
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word
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Sorry here we need to replace it which
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is
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a so I
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simply run this Python script So it will
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give a is repeated nine times inside
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this file here File.tx txt It's a very
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simple script but at the same times it's
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very easy to do Let me show you the
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Python script which is there So once we
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define a simple function here which is
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letter frequency So we want to get the
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frequency of each word inside this
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file.txt So we can say a Now we define
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this function which is very simple which
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is letter
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frequency We put the file name and the
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word and then we simply first of all for
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doing this we read the file here in the
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by using the open function we pass the
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file name in the read mode read flag
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After that we read the file here by the
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read
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function like this After that we simply
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return the
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content the text
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dot count of that specific letter that
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the user has passed So it contains a
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readymate function which is count
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function It will count the occurrences
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of this word that you passed inside this
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text file and then it will return So
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again if you run this it will return
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nine times you'll see that So it's a
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very simple script Uh thank you very
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