#!/usr/bin/env python import sys, re, operator, string # # The functions # def extract_words(path_to_file): 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!" with open(path_to_file) as f: data = f.read() pattern = re.compile('[\W_]+') word_list = pattern.sub(' ', data).lower().split() return word_list def remove_stop_words(word_list): assert(type(word_list) is list), "I need a list! I quit!" with open('../stop_words.txt') as f: stop_words = f.read().split(',') # add single-letter words stop_words.extend(list(string.ascii_lowercase)) return [w for w in word_list if not w in stop_words] def frequencies(word_list): 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_freqs): assert(type(word_freqs) is dict), "I need a dictionary! I quit!" assert(word_freqs != {}), "I need a non-empty dictionary! I quit!" return sorted(word_freqs.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True) # # The main function # try: assert(len(sys.argv) > 1), "You idiot! I need an input file! I quit!" word_freqs = sort(frequencies(remove_stop_words(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]) except Exception as e: print("Something wrong: {0}".format(e))