Finished Toolbox-WordFreqAnalysis

frequency.py

@@ -3,15 +3,22 @@
 
 import string
 
-
 def get_word_list(file_name):
     """ Reads the specified project Gutenberg book.  Header comments,
     punctuation, and whitespace are stripped away.  The function
     returns a list of the words used in the book as a list.
     All words are converted to lower case.
     """
-    pass
-
+    book = requests.get(file_name).text
+    split_text = book.split()
+    #F ind index of second '***'
+    asterisk = split_text.index('***')
+    split_text = split_text[asterisk+1:]
+    asterisk2 = split_text.index('***')
+    split_text = split_text[asterisk2+1:]
+    # Make words lowercase
+    split_text = [x.lower() for x in split_text]
+    return split_text
 
 def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
     """ Takes a list of words as input and returns a list of the n most frequently
@@ -23,7 +30,14 @@ def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
     returns: a list of n most frequently occurring words ordered from most
     frequently to least frequentlyoccurring
     """
-    pass
+    frequency = {}
+    for word in word_list:
+        frequency[word] = 0
+    for word in word_list:
+        frequency[word] += 1
+    sort_top_words = sorted(frequency.items(), key=lambda x:x[1])
+    sort_top_words.reverse()
+    return sort_top_words[:n]
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print("Running WordFrequency Toolbox")