word counter

 import string

def count_words(text):

    # Remove punctuation and convert to lowercase

    text = text.lower()

    text = text.translate(str.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))

    

    # Split the text into words

    words = text.split()

    

    # Count the frequency of each word

    word_count = {}

    for word in words:

        if word in word_count:

            word_count[word] += 1

        else:

            word_count[word] = 1

    

    return word_count

def read_file(file_path):

    with open(file_path, 'r') as file:

        return file.read()

# Example usage

file_path = 'example.txt'  # Replace with your file path

text = read_file(file_path)

word_count = count_words(text)

# Print the total number of words and the frequency of each word

total_words = sum(word_count.values())

print(f"The total number of words is: {total_words}")

print("Word frequencies:")

for word, count in word_count.items():

    print(f"{word}: {count}")