Read special characters from .txt file in python

Question

The goal of this code is to find the frequency of words used in a book.

I am tying to read in the text of a book but the following line keeps throwing my code off:

Answer 1

The best way I could think of is to read each character as an ASCII value, into an array, and then take the char value. For example, 97 is ASCII for "a" and if you do char(97) it will output "a". Check out some online ASCII tables that provide values for special characters also.