the usage of dict in python

Write a program to read through the mbox-short.txt and figure out who has the sent the greatest number of mail messages. 
The program looks for 'From ' lines and takes the second word of those lines as the person who sent the mail. 
The program creates a Python dictionary that maps the sender's mail address to a count of the number of times they appear in the file. 
After the dictionary is produced, the program reads through the dictionary using a maximum loop to find the most prolific committer


name = raw_input("Enter file:")
if len(name) < 1 :
    name = "mbox-short.txt"


cou = dict()
res = 0
handle = open(name)
for line in handle:
    line = line.rstrip()
    if line == '':
          continue
    words = line.split()
    if words[0] == 'From':
        cou[words[1]] = cou.get(words[1], 0) + 1
        if cou[words[1]] > res:
            res = cou[words[1]]
            word = words[1]
            
print word, res