continue WIP

python/word-count/word_count.py

@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 def count_words(input_sentence):
     sentence = input_sentence.lower()
-    sentence = ' '.join(filter(str.isalnum, sentence))
-    # for character in blocked_characters:
-    #     sentence = sentence.replace(character, " ")
+    # blocked_characters = [',', '.', ';', ':']
+    # sentence = ''.join(item for item in sentence if item.isalnum())
+
     words = sentence.split()
     result = {}
     for word in words:
-        result[word] = words.count(word)
+        mod_string = ""
+        for elem in word:
+            if elem.isalnum() or elem == "'":
+                mod_string += elem
+        result[mod_string] = words.count(word)
 
     return result