import re, sys, operator # Mileage may vary. If this crashes, make it lower RECURSION_LIMIT = 9500 # 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, word_freqs): if word_list == []: return if word_list[0] not in stopwords: if word_list[0] in word_freqs: word_freqs[word_list[0]] += 1 else: word_freqs[word_list[0]] = 1 count(word_list[1:], word_freqs) stopwords = 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, word_freqs) # Try doing that and see what happens. for i in range(0, len(words), RECURSION_LIMIT): count(words[i:i+RECURSION_LIMIT], word_freqs) for (w, c) in sorted(word_freqs.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:25]: print w, '-', c