Word frequency analysis in Python returning letter frequency

Question

Following examples on other Stackoverflow posts related to word frequency analysis in Python, my program is returning letter frequency analysis and not actually the word.

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Answer 1

contents is a string, and strings in Python are iterable (i.e. strings behave like lists of letters in this context) so your Counter is counting letters.

You need to pass the Counter a list of words, not a string of letters.

Joran's answer shows how to do this using split().