#!/usr/bin/env python import sys, re, operator, string # # Two down-to-earth things that cannot be reflected on # without serious performance penalties # stops = set(open("../stop_words.txt").read().split(",") + list(string.ascii_lowercase)) def frequencies_imp(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: word_freqs[w] += 1 else: word_freqs[w] = 1 return word_freqs # # Let's write our function bodies as strings. # Because we're looking at them from "above" # extract_words_func_body = "lambda name : [x.lower() for x in re.split('[^a-zA-Z]+', open(name).read()) if len(x) > 0 and x.lower() not in stops]" frequencies_func_body = "lambda word_list : frequencies_imp(word_list)" sort_func_body = "lambda word_freq: sorted(word_freq.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)" # # So far, this program isn't much about term-frequency. It's about # a bunch of strings that look like function bodies. # Let's add our functions to the "base" program, dynamically. # We're re-writing this program by adding more functions to it # from "above". # exec('extract_words = ' + extract_words_func_body) exec('frequencies = ' + frequencies_func_body) exec('sort = ' + sort_func_body) # # The main function. This would work just fine: # word_freqs = sort(frequencies(extract_words(sys.argv[1]))) # But because we're being introspective, we'll call the # functions also from "above" # word_freqs = locals()['sort'](locals()['frequencies'](locals()['extract_words'](sys.argv[1]))) for tf in word_freqs[0:25]: print tf[0], ' - ', tf[1]