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Strings & text easy

Count Characters, Words, and Lines in Python Text

Counts characters, words, lines, and the most common words in a given string using Python's standard library.

text-analysis counter strings
Python
from collections import Counter


def count_data(text):
    """Count characters, words, lines, and most common words in text."""
    char_count = len(text)
    word_count = len(text.split())
    line_count = text.count("\n") + 1
    word_freq = Counter(text.lower().split())
    most_common = word_freq.most_common(3)

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Strings & text easy

How to Inspect String Statistics in Python

A beginner-friendly function that returns detailed statistics about a string, including length, word count, character types, and easy text transformations.

strings text-analysis statistics
Python
def inspect_text(text: str) -> dict:
    """Return useful stats about a string for beginners."""
    words = text.split()
    return {
        "length": len(text),
        "word_count": len(words),
        "uppercase": sum(1 for ch in text if ch.isupper()),
        "lowercase": sum(1 for ch in text if ch.islower()),
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Dictionaries & sets easy

Count Word Frequency in Python with dict

Count how often each word appears in a text using Python's collections.Counter and regular expressions.

dictionary counter frequency
Python
from collections import Counter
import re

def count_word_frequency(text):
    """Count frequency of each word in text (case-insensitive)."""
    words = re.findall(r"\b\w+\b", text.lower())
    return dict(Counter(words))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sample_text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The …
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