freq.py

# freq.py

import string

def compareItems((w1,c1), (w2,c2)):
    if c1 > c2:
        return - 1
    elif c1 == c2:
        return cmp(w1, w2)
    else:
        return 1

def main():

    # get the sequence of words from the file
    fname = raw_input("File to analyze: ")
    text = open(fname,'r').read()
    text = string.lower(text)
    for ch in '!"#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~':
        text = string.replace(text, ch, ' ')
    words = string.split(text)

    # construct a dictionary of word counts
    counts = {}
    for w in words:
        counts[w] = counts.get(w,0) + 1

    # output analysis of n most frequent words.
    n = input("Output analysis of how many words? ")
    items = counts.items()
    items.sort(compareItems)
    for i in range(n):
        print "%-10s%5d" % items[i]

if __name__ == '__main__': main()