Write a python function to count the occurrence of a given word in a given file

Solution

def check_word_count(word, file):
    if not os.path.isfile(file):
        raise FileNotFoundError
    if not isinstance(word, str):
        raise TypeError
    with open(file, 'r') as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
        words = [l.strip().split(' ') for l in lines]
        words = [word for sublist in words for word in sublist]
        c = Counter(words)
    return c.get(word, 0)