#!/usr/bin/env python import re, sys, operator # Mileage may vary. If this crashes, make it lower RECURSION_LIMIT = 5000 # We add a few more, because, contrary to the name, # this doesn't just rule recursion: it rules the # depth of the call stack sys.setrecursionlimit(RECURSION_LIMIT+10) def count(word_list, stopwords, wordfreqs): # What to do with an empty list if word_list == []: return # The inductive case, what to do with a list of words else: # Process the head word word = word_list[0] if word not in stopwords: if word in wordfreqs: wordfreqs[word] += 1 else: wordfreqs[word] = 1 # Process the tail count(word_list[1:], stopwords, wordfreqs) def wf_print(wordfreq): if wordfreq == []: return else: (w, c) = wordfreq[0] print(w, '-', c) wf_print(wordfreq[1:]) stop_words = set(open('../stop_words.txt').read().split(',')) words = re.findall('[a-z]{2,}', open(sys.argv[1]).read().lower()) word_freqs = {} # Theoretically, we would just call count(words, stop_words, word_freqs) # Try doing that and see what happens. for i in range(0, len(words), RECURSION_LIMIT): count(words[i:i+RECURSION_LIMIT], stop_words, word_freqs) wf_print(sorted(word_freqs.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:25])