im writing a report and I need to count unique words of text files.

My texts are in D:\shakeall and they're totally 42 files...

I know some about Python, but I don't know what to do now.

This is what I know how it works.

1. read files in directory

2. make up a list of words from texts

3. count total/unique words

all I know is this. and some about for, while, lists and indexes, variables, lists...

What I want to do is make my own function library and use it to get result.

I really appreciate any advice about my questions.

------p.s.

I really know almost nothing about Python. What I can only do is a simple math or printing words in a list..given topic is too hard for me. Sorry.

textfile=open('somefile.txt','r')
text_list=[line.split(' ') for line in textfile]
unique_words=[word for word in text_list if word not in unique_words]
print(len(unique_words))

That's the general gist of it