Python: Get word count frequency from a string?

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How do I get word count frequency from a string in Python?

Steps applied -- (1) Ran getText() function to extract text from a Word document.Docx (2) Output is 500 words as a string

getText() function code
def getText(filename):
doc = docx.Document(filename)
fullText = []
for para in doc.paragraphs:
    fullText.append(para.text)
return '\n'.join(fullText)

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Solution

There are a number of good tutorials out there that cover this. I like this one as it provides some visuals that can help explain what's going on.

The code from said tutorial (posted here for convenience):

def word_count(str):
    counts = dict()
    words = str.split()

    for word in words:
        if word in counts:
            counts[word] += 1
        else:
            counts[word] = 1

    return counts

print( word_count('the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'))