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+Style #20
+==============================
+
+Constraints:
+
+- Every single procedure and function checks the sanity of its
+  arguments and refuses to work when the arguments are unreasonable
+
+- All code blocks check for all possible errors and refuse to continue
+  when things go wrong
+
+Possible names:
+
+- Tantrum
+- Design by contract
+- Mental breakdown
diff --git a/20-tantrum/tf-20.py b/20-tantrum/tf-20.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys, re, operator, string, inspect
+
+#
+# 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
+    """
+    assert(type(path_to_file) is str), "I need a string! I quit!" 
+    assert(path_to_file), "I need a non-empty string! I quit!" 
+
+    try:
+        with open(path_to_file) as f:
+            str_data = f.read()
+    except IOError as e:
+        print "I/O error({0}) when opening {1}: {2}! I quit!".format(e.errno, path_to_file, e.strerror)
+        raise e
+    
+    pattern = re.compile('[\W_]+')
+    word_list = pattern.sub(' ', str_data).lower().split()
+
+    try:
+        with open('../stop_words.txt') as f:
+            stop_words = f.read().split(',')
+    except IOError as e:
+        print "I/O error({0}) when opening ../stops_words.txt: {1}! I quit!".format(e.errno, e.strerror)
+        raise e
+
+    stop_words.extend(list(string.ascii_lowercase))
+    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
+    """
+    assert(type(word_list) is list), "I need a list! I quit!"
+    assert(word_list <> []), "I need a non-empty list! I quit!"
+
+    word_freqs = {}
+    for w in word_list:
+        if w in word_freqs:
+            word_freqs[w] += 1
+        else:
+            word_freqs[w] = 1
+    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 
+    """
+    assert(type(word_freq) is dict), "I need a dictionary! I quit!"
+    assert(word_freq <> {}), "I need a non-empty dictionary! I quit!"
+
+    return sorted(word_freq.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
+
+#
+# The main function
+#
+assert(len(sys.argv) > 1), "You idiot! I need an input file! I quit!"
+word_freqs = sort(frequencies(extract_words(sys.argv[1])))
+
+assert(len(word_freqs) > 25), "OMG! Less than 25 words! I QUIT!"
+for tf in word_freqs[0:25]:
+    print tf[0], ' - ', tf[1]
+