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frequency.py

@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
 """ Analyzes the word frequencies in a book downloaded from
 Project Gutenberg """
 
-import string
-
+import re, string
+from collections import Counter
 
 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
+    file = open(file_name, 'r')
+    text = file.read()
+    file.close()
+    # strip away the first and last part
+    start = 'START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN'
+    stop = 'END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN'
+    cut_text = text[text.index(start)+len(start):text.index(stop)]
+    word = re.compile(r'\w+')
+    text_final = cut_text.lower()     # all letters lowercase
+    words = word.findall(text_final)  # all words in a list
+    return words
 
 
 def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
@@ -23,8 +33,12 @@ 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
+    return Counter(word_list).most_common(n) #return the top n words
+
+
+
+print(get_top_n_words(get_word_list('pg32325.txt'), 100))
 
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    print("Running WordFrequency Toolbox")
-    print(string.punctuation)
+# if __name__ == "__main__":
+#     print("Running WordFrequency Toolbox")
+#     print(string.punctuation)