Why I'm unable to pass list to word_counts in textblob?

Question

As shown in the quickstart.

I have a list of words to be searched programmatically, but .word_counts['ekki'] (as shown in the quickstart), is giving me an error.

>>> import textblob
>>> str = textblob.TextBlob("hello im programmer")
>>> lis = ["hi","hello"]
>>> str.word_counts[i for i in lis]
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    str.word_counts[i for i in lis]
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Code snippets or helpful links appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to replace this;

str.word_counts[i for i in lis]

With this;

for i in lis:
    print(str.word_counts[i])

Your original line doesn't make any sense since you're trying to use a list comprehension as an index to acces a list.