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Exercise

The number of cats

You are working on a natural language processing project to determine what makes great writers so great. Your current hypothesis is that great writers talk about cats a lot. To prove it, you want to count the number of times the word "cat" appears in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. You have already downloaded a text file, alice.txt, with the entire contents of this great book.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Use the open() context manager to open alice.txt and assign the file to the file variable.