import string
text = 'h. h h'
text = text + ' '
l = []
for x in text:
    if x == ' ':
        space = text.index(' ')
        part = text[:space]
        if part[-1] == '.':
            part = part[:-1]
        else:
            part = part    
        l.append(part)
        part1 = text[:space + 1]
        string.join(string.split(text, part1), '') 

print l

# Read the entire text from a file into a string.
# How many times does each word in the text appear?
# Found a way to remove all punctuation marks. Thanks team!
# Changed all characters to lower case.
# I am still using Python 2.3

import sets, string

fileHandle = open ( 'NationalAnthemUSA.txt', 'r' )
# read entire text into a string
str = fileHandle.read()
fileHandle.close()

# show the text string
print str

# create a string of all punctuation marks
puncStr = string.punctuation
print puncStr

# create a list of all characters
charList = list(str)

# use a list comprehension to remove all punctuation characters 
print "Remove all punctuation marks:"
charList1 = [x for x in charList if x not in puncStr]

# join the list of characters to form a string again
str1 = "".join(charList1)
# change the string to all lower case characters
str1 = str1.lower()
print str1

# convert string to a set of unique words
wordSet = sets.Set( str1.split() )
print wordSet

# march through the set word by word and get count from string
for word in wordSet:
  wordCount = str1.count( word )
  print word, '=', wordCount

notuniqList = [ ... put the words of your song lyrics here ... ]
uniqueList = []
[uniqList.append(str) for str in notuniqList if not uniqList.count(str)]
...

import gdbm

db = gdbm.open("gbdm", "c")

db['1'] = 'the foot'
db['2'] = 'the shoulder'
db['3'] = 'the other foot'
db.close()

db = gdbm.open("gdbm", "r")
keys.sort()
for key in keys:
   print db[key] ':' print key