def createWordList(textFile):

    #Open the input file
    myFile = open(textFile,"r")

    #Read the file
    fileText = myFile.read()

    #Close the file
    myFile.close()

    #Clean up the test
    badChars = ".,!?;(){}:"

    for badChar in badChars:
        fileText=fileText.replace(badChar,"")

    #Deal with the dash
    fileText = fileText.replace("-"," ")

    #Lowercase all words
    fileText = fileText.lower()

    listOfWords = fileText.split()
    return(listOfWords)

def countUniqueWords(textFile):
    # Get the big word list
    wordList = createWordList(textFile)

    # Unique word list
    uniqueWordList = []

    for word in wordList:
        #If not in unique list
        if not word in uniqueWordList:
            uniqueWordList.append(word)

    return len(uniqueWordList)