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There are two typos in the alta/ipynb/GettingTexts.ipynb file:
after prompt 28, your wrote "withouth"

the more significant typo is after prompt 37, you write that totalCharacters += chars is equivalent to totalCharacters += chars -- I think you mean totalCharacters += chars is equivalent to totalCharacters = totalCharacters + chars

Error message when trying to load this jupyter notebook. Not sure what the problem is. Have tried over several days to access the page, and different browsers.

Have been reviewing the code to be sure I understand what is going on and could not find an explanation for a portion of the line listOfTokens = re.findall(r'\b\w[\w-]*\b', fileRead.lower())

Cannot find definition of the term [\w-] in python documentation for regex etc. Explanation would be appreciated.

Cheers, BobS

Might be better to point the urllib module to this link, which is plain text, and already decoded:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2147/2147-0.txt

I'm a relative rookie, but banged my head against the wall trying to make the code run on the previous link, always getting error messages about reading bytes object.

A very small issue: in cell [6] of GettingGraphical, this code appears:

goldBugLowerCaseWordTokenLengthFreqs = list(nltk.FreqDist(goldBugLowerCaseWordTokenLengths).items())
goldBugLowerCaseWordTokenLengthFreqs # sorted by word length (not frequency)

The second line seems to be missing the sorted function:

goldBugLowerCaseWordTokenLengthFreqs = list(nltk.FreqDist(goldBugLowerCaseWordTokenLengths).items())
sorted(goldBugLowerCaseWordTokenLengthFreqs) # sorted by word length (not frequency)

I would've made a pull request but couldn't create a new branch. Thanks!