new_contents: #!/usr/bin/python
  import re
  # this one in honor of 4th July, or pick text file you have!!!!!!!
  filename = 'out.txt'
  # create list of lower case words, \s+ --> match any whitespace(s)
  # you can replace file(filename).read() with given string
  word_list = re.split('\s+', file(filename).read().lower())
  print 'Words in text:', len(word_list)
  # create dictionary of word:frequency pairs
  freq_dic = {}
  # punctuation marks to be removed
  punctuation = re.compile(r'[.?!,":;]') 
  for word in word_list:
      # remove punctuation marks
      word = punctuation.sub("", word)
      # form dictionary
      try: 
          freq_dic[word] += 1
      except: 
          freq_dic[word] = 1
  
  print 'Unique words:', len(freq_dic)
  # create list of (key, val) tuple pairs
  freq_list = freq_dic.items()
  # sort by key or word
  freq_list.sort()
  # display result
  for word, freq in freq_list:
      print word, freq
  
subject: Add initial word counting file.