Deleted unneeded comments

17-asides/tf-17.py

@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-
 import sys, re, operator, string, time
 
 #
 # The functions
 #
 def extract_words(path_to_file):
-    """
-    Takes a path to a file and returns the non-stop
-    words, after properly removing nonalphanumeric chars
-    and normalizing for lower case
-    """
     with open(path_to_file) as f:
         str_data = f.read()
     pattern = re.compile('[\W_]+')
@@ -21,10 +15,6 @@ def extract_words(path_to_file):
     return [w for w in word_list if not w in stop_words]
 
 def frequencies(word_list):
-    """
-    Takes a list of words and returns a dictionary associating
-    words with frequencies of occurrence
-    """
     word_freqs = {}
     for w in word_list:
         if w in word_freqs:
@@ -34,11 +24,6 @@ def frequencies(word_list):
     return word_freqs
 
 def sort(word_freq):
-    """
-    Takes a dictionary of words and their frequencies
-    and returns a list of pairs where the entries are
-    sorted by frequency 
-    """
     return sorted(word_freq.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
 
 # The side functionality
@@ -57,11 +42,8 @@ tracked_functions = [extract_words, frequencies, sort]
 for func in tracked_functions:
     globals()[func.func_name]=profile(func)
 
-#
-# The main function
-#
 word_freqs = sort(frequencies(extract_words(sys.argv[1])))
 
-for tf in word_freqs[0:25]:
-    print tf[0], ' - ', tf[1]
+for (w, c) in word_freqs[0:25]:
+    print w, ' - ', c