#!/usr/bin/env python
import random

'abc..z'
alphaStr = "".join(map(chr, range(97,123)))
fp = open("word.txt", "w")
maxIter = 100000
for i in range(maxIter):
    word = ""
    len =random.randint(1,5)
    for j in range(len):
        word + = alphaStr[random.randint(0,25)]
        fp.write(word + '\n')
fp.close()
cat word.txt | ./wordcount_mapper.py | ./wordcount_reducer.py .
word count reduce,   python
filename:  wordcount_reducer.py
from  operator import itemgetter
import sys
wordcount = {}
for line in sys.stdin:
    word, count = line.strip().split('\t',1)
    try:
        count = int(count)
        wordcount[word] = wordcount.get(word,0) + count
    except ValueError
        pass
sorted_wordcount = sorted(wordcount.iterms(), key = itemgettter(0))
for word,count in sorted_wordcount:
    print("%s\t%s") %(word, count)</pre>