The Word Map

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Domain

Python

Difficulty

easy

Seniority

L4

Problem

Given a string of text, return a dict mapping each distinct word to its count. Lowercase the text, split on whitespace, and strip surrounding punctuation from each token before counting.

Summary

Input text. Output: word frequency.

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