In this tutorial we are going to learn about counting the Occurrences of a Word in a Text File in Python.

Python Program to Count the Occurrences of a Word in a Text File

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
word=input("Enter word to be searched:")
k = 0
 
with open(fname, 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        words = line.split()
        for i in words:
            if(i==word):
                k=k+1
print("Occurrences of the word:")
print(k)

Explanation

1. User must enter a file name and the word to be searched.
2. The file is opened using the open() function in the read mode.
3. A for loop is used to read through each line in the file.
4. Each line is split into a list of words using split().
5. Another for loop is used to traverse through the list and each word in the list is compared with the word provided by the user.
6. If both the words are equal, the word count is incremented.
7. The final count of occurrences of the word is printed.