new_contents: import sys
  
  d = {}
  for lines in open(sys.argv[1], 'rU'):
  	lexemes = lines.strip().split("\t")
  	if len(lexemes) in d:
  		d[key] += 1
  		d[key] = lines
  	else:
  		d[key] = 1
  		d[key].append(lines)	
  print d
  #	if len(lexemes) not in l:
  #		l.append(len(lexemes))
  #		
  #for item in l:
  #	outfile = "ncol.%s.txt" % (item)
  #	if len(lexemes) == item:
  #		outfile.write(lines)
  
  
subject: split a file into multiple by number of columns