Text Reader

Simple command-line text analysis tool written in Python.

Features

• Print file contents
• Count lines and words
• Find the longest line
• Show the most frequent words in the file

Requirements

Python 3.x

Usage

Run the program with a text file path and optional flags.

Print file contents (default):

python main.py text.txt

Count lines and words:

python main.py text.txt --count

Find the longest line:

python main.py text.txt --longest

Show top N most common words:

python main.py text.txt --top 5

Example Output

$ python main.py text.txt --count
Lines: 3, Words: 9
Execution time: 0.002 seconds
$ python main.py text.txt --top 3
Top words: [('the', 4), ('text', 2), ('example', 2)]
Execution time: 0.002 seconds

Project Structure

• main.py – main script for text analysis
• text.txt – sample input file
• text2.txt – additional sample file

Learning Notes

This project was built as a learning exercise to practice:

• Python file handling
• command line argument parsing (argparse)
• word frequency analysis (collections.Counter)

Some guidance was used during development as part of the learning process.

License

MIT License

Contact

Ade - ademirsteventm@gmail.com