Count the frequency of words in a file

Count the frequency of words in a file.

from collections import Counter

def word_count(fname):
    with open(fname) as f:
        return Counter(f.read().split())

# test
print("Number of words in the file :", word_count("test.txt"))

Output:

Number of words in the file : \
  Counter({'this': 7, 'Append': 5, 'text.': 5, \
  'text.Append': 2, 'Welcome': 1, 'to': 1, 'w3resource.com.': 1})

See also

https://www.w3resource.com/python-exercises/file/python-io-exercise-10.php