BookBot in Python

BookBot is my first Boot.dev project!

BookBot is a command-line Python program that analyzes a text file and reports the total word count and character frequency.

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What I Learned

While building BookBot, I practiced several important Python concepts:

• Reading text files using Python File I/O
• Working with command-line arguments using the sys module
• Using sys.argv to pass a book path into the program
• Exiting programs with status codes using sys.exit()
• Splitting strings into words
• Counting characters with Python dictionaries
• Building and sorting lists of dictionaries
• Filtering characters using string methods like .isalpha()
• Organizing code into reusable functions

Usage

python3 main.py <path_to_book>

Output

python3 main.py books/prideandprejudice.txt

============ BOOKBOT ============
Analyzing book found at books/prideandprejudice.txt
----------- Word Count ----------
Found 130410 total words
--------- Character Count -------
e: 74451
t: 50837
a: 44834
o: 43383
i: 41198
n: 40686
h: 36162
s: 35695
r: 35168
d: 23723
l: 23475
u: 16303
m: 15676
c: 14838
y: 13579
w: 13017
f: 12996
g: 11007
b: 9762
p: 9154
v: 6118
k: 3497
x: 1032
j: 1014
z: 971
q: 660
ê: 8
à: 4
é: 2
â: 1
œ: 1
============= END ===============