Comments on: Using Python to detect the most frequent words in a file https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/ Meditations on programming, startups, and technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Autoreplace Upgrade - PreCentral Forums https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-6460 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:44:54 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-6460 […] found this while googling… Using Python to detect the most frequent words in a file | Zen and the Art of Programming Its a python script, and many variants, for collecting commonly used words from a text file. It […]

]]> By: Rung András https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-6418 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:52:14 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-6418 Thanks a lot, it works fine, much better than other codes which cannot handle my utf-8 linguistic stuff!

]]> By: Shaun Mbhiza https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5764 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:31:44 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5764 I’m doing a simple program that adds repeated words in a tuple to a list,the problem is that I don’t know how to make the check case-INsensitive.Can you help me with this code and also the bit w.r.t the initial check.

]]> By: Shaun Mbhiza https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5761 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:52:22 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5761 Thanks a Lot Antoniano U have made my day thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!!

]]> By: Antonio Cangiano https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5744 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:53:25 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5744 Shaun, why are you shouting? 🙂

Anyway, reversing a string in Python is very easy using [::-1]

word = "ciao"
reversed = word[::-1]
print reversed
]]> By: SHAUN MBHIZA https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5742 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:38:26 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5742 HELP! HELP! I NEED A PYTHON CODE/COMMAND TO REVERSE A WORD HELP GUYS PLEASE AND IF POSSIBLE A.S.A.P

]]> By: knarf https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5640 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:55:33 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-5640 Grmbl..

Perl implementation : http://pastebin.com/f41b63d37
Alternate version : http://pastebin.com/f25e1deb1

]]> By: Maori Geek » Religion by the numbers https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-4171 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:25:30 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-4171 […] I started to look more online, into different tutorials than the standard Google page rank 1 one, I found this one, this basically opened my mind to what Python had to offer in the functional realm. So here is the […]

]]> By: Graham https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-4170 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:05:21 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-4170 Incredibly useful information and a practical way to see how the functional aspects of Python work.
I have used and liked Haskell, and now I think I am going to like Python because I have seen more of what it can do.

]]> By: david https://programmingzen.com/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-2874 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:30 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/03/18/use-python-to-detect-the-most-frequent-words-in-a-file/#comment-2874 count = {}; open(“somefile”).each_line { |line| line.split(/\b/).each { |word| count[word] ||= 0; count[word] += 1 } }

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