bookbot

Bookbot analyzes a provided text file and provides a report listing the following information

• The number of total words in the file
• The number of total characters in the file
• The count of how many times each character appears in the file, excluding non-alphabetic characters

Installation and Use

• Clone the repository
• (Optional) Download or create text files to be analyzed, add their paths to the config.txt file
• Python must be installed on the system (this is out of scope of these instructions)
• Execute the command ./main.py without arguments for interactive mode.
• Read the help message for details on other CLI arguments.

Configuration

An example config file, provided as config.txt, as well as the text of two public domain books have been provided in the books directory. The configuration file expects relative or absolute paths to plaintext files separated by spaces or new lines.

Dependencies

• python version 3.10 or greater
• imports os, tkinter, and argparse. Installation of tkinter may be necessary on some systems.

Acknowledgement

This project is based on the guided project course "Build a Bookbot" from Boot.dev Some of my feature additions were inspired by another boot.dev learner. Their repo can be found at this URL https://github.com/lucjalbert/bookbot. Thanks for the inspiration!