#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, string

# The shared mutable data
data = []
words = []
word_freqs = []

#
# The functions
#
def read_file(path_to_file):
    """
    Takes a path to a file and assigns the entire
    contents of the file to the global variable data
    """
    global data
    f = open(path_to_file)
    data = data + list(f.read())
    f.close()

def filter_chars_and_normalize():
    """
    Replaces all nonalphanumeric chars in data with white space
    """
    global data
    for i in range(len(data)):
        if not data[i].isalnum():
            data[i] = ' '
        else:
            data[i] = data[i].lower()

def scan():
    """
    Scans data for words, filling the global variable words
    """
    global data
    global words
    data_str = ''.join(data)
    words = words + data_str.split()

def remove_stop_words():
    global words
    f = open('../stop_words.txt')
    stop_words = f.read().split(',')
    f.close()
    # add single-letter words
    stop_words.extend(list(string.ascii_lowercase))
    indeces = []
    for i in range(len(words)):
        if words[i] in stop_words:
            indeces.append(i)
    for i in reversed(indeces):
        words.pop(i)

def frequencies():
    """
    Creates a list of pairs associating
    words with frequencies 
    """
    global words
    global word_freqs
    for w in words:
        keys = [wd[0] for wd in word_freqs]
        if w in keys:
            word_freqs[keys.index(w)][1] += 1
        else:
            word_freqs.append([w, 1])

def sort():
    """
    Sorts word_freqs by frequency
    """
    global word_freqs
    word_freqs.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(y[1], x[1]))


#
# The main function
#
read_file(sys.argv[1])
filter_chars_and_normalize()
scan()
remove_stop_words()
frequencies()
sort()

for tf in word_freqs[0:25]:
    print tf[0], ' - ', tf[1]