# word frequency in a text
# tested with Python24 vegaseat 25aug2005
# Chinese wisdom ...
str1 = """Man who run in front of car, get tired.
Man who run behind car, get exhausted."""
print "Original string:"
print str1
# create a list of words separated at whitespaces
wordList1 = str1.split(None)
# strip any punctuation marks and build modified word list
# start with an empty list
wordList2 = []
for word1 in wordList1:
# last character of each word
lastchar = word1[-1:]
# use a list of punctuation marks
if lastchar in [",", ".", "!", "?", ";"]:
word2 = word1.rstrip(lastchar)
else:
word2 = word1
# build a wordList of lower case modified words
wordList2.append