Most Popular Lyric

This Python script will find and return the most frequently appearing lyric of a song. In the case where there is more than one lyric, it will return the lyric that appears first in the song.

This script accepts song lyrics only as .txt files. A sample file is provided named song.txt that contains the lyrics to Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey, but feel free to add your own .txt file to the direcctory.

Make sure to input the filename after running the script to return results.

Source Code: main.py
wordsTallied = {}
with open(input("Please enter file name: "), 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        words = line.lower().split() #Divides line into words
        for word in words:
            if word not in wordsTallied: #New Word
                if len(word) >= 4: #Adds new word to dictionary if longer than 3 letters
                    wordsTallied[word] = 1
            else: #Repeated word
                wordsTallied[word] += 1 #Updates number of times word appears
    f.closed

maxWord = max(wordsTallied, key=wordsTallied.get) #Gets the most lyric word of song
maxCount = wordsTallied[maxWord] #Gets number of times the lyric appears
print("\n" + "The most popular lyric is: '" + maxWord + "' \nIt appears " + str(maxCount) + " times in the song" ) #Prints most popular lyric and the number of occurences in the song