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+.venv
+books/
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diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
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+def main():
+    with open("./books/frankenstein.txt", 'r') as f:
+        file_contents = f.read()
+        count = count_words(file_contents)
+        print("--- Begin report of books/frankenstein.txt ---")
+        print(f"{count} words found in the document\n")
+        character_count(file_contents)
+        print("\n--- End report ---")
+        f.close()
+
+def count_words(text):
+    words = text.split()
+    return len(words)
+
+def character_count(text):
+    characters = {}
+    for word in text:
+        lowercased_word = word.lower()
+        for character in lowercased_word:
+            if character.isalpha():
+                if character in characters:
+                    characters[character] += 1
+                else:
+                    characters[character] = 1
+    character_list = []
+    for character in characters:
+        character_list.append({"character": character, "num": characters[character]})
+    character_list.sort(reverse=True, key=sort_on)
+    report(character_list)
+
+def sort_on(dict):
+    return dict["num"]
+
+def report(character_list):
+    for dict in character_list:
+        print(f"The '{dict["character"]}' character was found {dict["num"]}")
+
+main()
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