name = raw_input('Enter file:') handle = open(name, 'r') text = handle.read() words = text.split() counts = dict() for word in words: counts[word] = counts.get(word,0) + 1 bigcount = None bigword = None for word,count in counts.items(): if bigcount == None or count > bigcount: bigword = word bigcount = count print bigword, bigcount