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    # [The LibraryThing programming quiz!](https://thingology.librarything.com/2011/07/the-librarything-programming-test/)

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    Input is a string—a paragraph of text. One of the paragraphs above would be fine.

    Output is a report listing how many words there are with X letters, like:

    10 words with 1 letter
    20 words with 2 letters
    7 words with 3 letters
    15 words with 4 letters, etc.
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    from collections import defaultdict
    import re

    def print_word_counts(text: str="") -> None:
    words = re.split("[\W_]+", text)
    length_counts = defaultdict(int)
    for word in words:
    length_counts[len(word)] += 1
    for length in sorted(length_counts.keys()):
    print(
    f"{length_counts[length]} word{'s' if length_counts[length] != 1 else ''}"
    f"with {length} letter{'s' if length != 1 else ''}"
    )