word_counter.py

import re

def word_counter(fname):
 wc = {}
 try:
 f = open(fname, "r", encoding="utf-8")
 lines = f.readlines()
 for line in lines:
 wd = line.split(" ")

 for i in wd:
 j = i.strip("\n")
 j = j.lower()
 j = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z\s]", "", j)
 if j == "":
 continue

 if j in wc:
 wc[j] += 1
 else:
 wc[j] = 1

 except FileNotFoundError:
 print("File not found")
 return
 except Exception as e:
 print(e)
 return
 finally:
 f.close()

 return wc

wc = word_counter("file_name.txt")
wc2 = dict(sorted(wc.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True))
print(wc2)