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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Fri Oct 20 16:21:56 2017
@author: Kody Ellis
Prints the amount of time each letter of the alphabet occurs in a file.
"""
import string
#Makes a variable that has all of the lower case alphabet
alphaStringLow = string.lowercase
#function returns the value of the number of time an alphabet letter occurs in a file
##Test file provided is gettysburg.txt
def letterCount(target_char, file_name):
#Creates a file object that connects to a file for reading
file_connector = open(file_name, 'r')
#reads the file and stores contents as a giant string
data = file_connector.read()
number_of_occurences = 0
#traverses each character in the file
for char in data:
#Sees if the current characters selected is the chracter we are counting right now.
#Counts the lower or upper case occurance of the target character.
if char == target_char or char == target_char.upper():
number_of_occurences += 1
#Closes file.
file_connector.close()
return number_of_occurences
#Prints a newline for aesthetic reasons
print '\n'
for char in alphaStringLow:
print char, "=", letterCount(char, 'gettysburg.txt')