# Reads in file one line at a time and
# counts the number of times each word
# occurs in the file
in_file = "silly.txt"
silly_file = open(in_file, "r")

word_counts = {}

# loop over each line in the file
for silly_line in silly_file:
    # split cuts a string up into a list of smaller strings
    words = silly_line.split(" ")

    # loop over each word in the line
    for word in words:
        # check if the word is a key in the dictionary already
        if word in word_counts:
            # we already saw the word at least once, so add one to the count
            word_counts[word] = word_counts[word] + 1
        else:
            # we never saw this word before (otherwise the word would be a key
            # in the dictionary), so add the key to the dictionary and set its
            # value (the count) to one
            word_counts[word] = 1

print(word_counts)
silly_file.close()