aliceBook = open("thinkcspy/Chapter-12-Exercises/alice_in_wonderland.txt", "r") aliceDict = {} for line in aliceBook: words = line.split() for word in words: word = word.lower() newWord = "" for char in word: if char.isalpha(): newWord += char word = newWord if word not in aliceDict: aliceDict[word] = 1 else: aliceDict[word] += 1 print(aliceDict) aliceBook.close()