Modify the previous program to read a word list (see Section 9.1) and then print all the words in the book that are not in the word list. How many of them are typos? How many of them are common words that should be in the word list, and how many of them are really obscure?
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Modify the program from the previous exercise to print the 20 most frequently-used words in the book.
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Go to Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org) and download your favorite out-of-copyright book in plain text format.
Modify your program from the previous exercise to read the book you downloaded, skip over the header information at the beginning of the file, and process the rest of the words as before. Then modify the program to count the total number of words in the book, and the number of times each word is used.
Print the number of different words used in the book. Compare different books by different authors, written in different eras. Which author uses the most extensive vocabulary?
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Write a program that reads a file, breaks each line into words, strips whitespace and punctuation from the words, and converts them to lowercase. Hint: The string module provides strings named whitespace, which contains space, tab, newline, etc., and punctuation which contains the punctuation characters. Let’s see if we can make Python swear:
>>> import string >>> print string.punctuation !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~Also, you might consider using the string methods strip, replace and translate.
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Write a function called mul_time that takes a Time object and a number and returns a new Time object that contains the product of the original Time and the number. Then use mul_time to write a function that takes a Time object that represents the finishing time in a race, and a number that represents the distance, and returns a Time object that represents the average pace (time per mile).
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