NOTE: Before running this notebook, place a copy of your downloaded RomeoAndJuliet.txt file in the same folder with this notebook.
TextBlob
can count word frequencies for youPath
’s read_text
method, it closes the file immediately after it finishes reading the filefrom pathlib import Path
from textblob import TextBlob
blob = TextBlob(Path('RomeoAndJuliet.txt').read_text())
TextBlob
’s word_counts
dictionaryblob.word_counts['juliet']
blob.word_counts['romeo']
blob.word_counts['thou']
TextBlob
into a WordList
, you can count specific words in the list via the count
methodblob.words.count('joy')
blob.noun_phrases.count('lady capulet')
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