Question

Using the string below to make a list of words, show that there are 272 words in the Gettysburg Address.

How many distinct words are in the speech?

Hint: You may need to delete some of the punctuation, including new lines, which are represented by \n.

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gettysburg_address = """Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this 
continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all 
men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so 
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we 
should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this 
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be 
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly 
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before 
us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they 
gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall 
not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and 
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not 
perish from the earth."""

In [64]:

# Use string operations to fill in the right-hand side and make a word list.
#word_list = ????

# Use this line to remove the blank word from the list
word_list = [word for word in word_list if word is not '']

Answer 1

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import string

gettysburg_address = """Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this

continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all

men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so

conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here

gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we

should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this

ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above

our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say

here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be

dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly

advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before

us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they

gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall

not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and

that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not

perish from the earth."""

# In [64]:

# Use string operations to fill in the right-hand side and make a word list.

word_list = [word for word in gettysburg_address.replace("-", " ").replace("\n", " ").split(" ")]

# Use this line to remove the blank word from the list

word_list = [word for word in word_list if word is not '']

print("Total words:", len(word_list))

print("Unique wors:", len(set(word_list)))