syntax errors on creating wordDictionary of word and occurences

Question

Having Attribute error issue on line 32. Requesting some assistance figuring out how to display word and occurrences.

import re

file_object = open('dialog.txt')
# read the file content
fileContents = file_object.read()
# convert fileContents to lowercase
final_dialog = fileContents.lower()
# print(final_dialog)

# replace a-z and spaces with cleanText variable
a_string = final_dialog
cleanText = re.sub("[^0-9a-zA-Z]+", "1", a_string)
# print(cleanText)

# wordlist that contains all words found in cleanText
text_string = cleanText
wordList = re.sub("1"," ", text_string)
# print(wordList)

#wordDictionary to count occurrence of each word to list in wordList
wordDictionary = dict()
#loop through .txt
for line in list(wordList):
    # remove spaces and newline characters
    line = line.strip()

    # split the line into words
    words = line.split()

    #iterate over each word in line
    for word in words.split():
        if word not in wordDictionary:
            wordDictionary[word] = 1
        else:
            wordDictionary[word] += 1

        # print contents of dictionary
        print(word)




# print file content
# print(fileContents)
# close file
# file_object.close()

Having Attribute error issue on line 32. Requesting some assistance figuring out how to display word and occurrences.

Answer 1

I think the error is

for word in words.split():

and should be replaced with

for word in words:

Explanation: words is already a list. A list has no split method, so you'll get an AttributeError when trying to call that method.