#!/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 """ if type(path_to_file) is not str or not path_to_file: return [] 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}".format(e.errno, path_to_file, e.strerror) return [] 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}".format(e.errno, e.strerror) return [] 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 """ if type(word_list) is not list or word_list == []: return {} 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 """ if type(word_freq) is not dict or word_freq == {}: return [] return sorted(word_freq.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True) # # The main function # filename = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "../input.txt" word_freqs = sort(frequencies(extract_words(filename))) for tf in word_freqs[0:25]: print tf[0], ' - ', tf[1]