Hamlet text word frequency statistics

#CalHamlet.py
def getText():
	txt = open("hamlet.txt", "r").read()
	txt = txt.lower()
	for ch in '!@~#$%^&*(){}_+-=[]:"|?><\,./;':
		txt = txt.replace(ch, " ")
	return txt

hamletTxt = getText()
words = hamletTxt.split()
counts = {
    
    }
for word in words:
	counts[word] = counts.get(word,0) + 1
items = list(counts.items())
items.sort(key=lambda x:x[1], reverse=True)
for i in range(10):
	word, count = items[i]
	print("{0:<10}{1:>5}".format(word, count))