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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+# Challenge 032
+#
+# Task #1
+# Contributed by Neil Bowers
+# Count instances
+# Create a script that either reads standard input or one or more files
+# specified on the command-line. Count the number of times and then print a
+# summary, sorted by the count of each entry.
+#
+# So with the following input in file example.txt
+#
+# apple
+# banana
+# apple
+# cherry
+# cherry
+# apple
+# the script would display something like:
+#
+# apple     3
+# cherry    2
+# banana    1
+# For extra credit, add a -csv option to your script, which would generate:
+#
+# apple,3
+# banana,1
+# cherry,2
+
+import fileinput
+import sys
+
+# command line options
+sep = "\t"
+if len(sys.argv)>1 and sys.argv[1]=="-csv":
+    sys.argv.pop(1)
+    sep = ","
+
+# count instances
+count = {}
+for line in fileinput.input():
+    word = line.strip()
+    if word in count:
+        count[word] += 1
+    else:
+        count[word] = 1
+
+# output
+for key in sorted(count):
+    print(f"{key}{sep}{count[key]}")