feat: add code for the bookbot project.

.gitignore

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+/books/

main.py

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+def main():
+    path = "books/frankenstein.txt"
+    with open(path) as file:
+        file_contents = file.read()
+        report(
+            path,
+            get_num_words(file_contents),
+            character_dict(file_contents)
+        )
+
+
+def get_num_words(text):
+    '''get_num_words returns the number of words in a given text string'''
+    words = text.split()
+    return len(words)
+
+
+def character_dict(text):
+    '''character_dict returns a dictionary with the amount of times
+    a character appears in a given text'''
+    output = {
+        'a': 0,
+        'b': 0,
+        'c': 0,
+        'd': 0,
+        'e': 0,
+        'f': 0,
+        'g': 0,
+        'h': 0,
+        'i': 0,
+        'j': 0,
+        'k': 0,
+        'l': 0,
+        'm': 0,
+        'n': 0,
+        'o': 0,
+        'p': 0,
+        'q': 0,
+        'r': 0,
+        's': 0,
+        't': 0,
+        'u': 0,
+        'v': 0,
+        'w': 0,
+        'x': 0,
+        'y': 0,
+        'z': 0,
+    }
+
+    for character in text:
+        if character.lower() in output:
+            output[character.lower()] += 1
+
+    return output
+
+
+def report(path, total_words, characters):
+    '''report prints a report about the specified book'''
+    print(f"--- Begin report of {path} ---")
+    print(f"{total_words} words found in the document\n")
+    for key, value in characters.items():
+        print(f"The character '{key}' was found {value} times")
+    print("--- End report ---")
+
+
+main()