Python Question
How to sort word frequency in a list (but not all of them printed) in Python
I have to count the word frequency in a list using python, but what I want is I want to count the words according to its occurance, but I dont't want to print it all
For the example, i have this list
lists = ["me","sleep","love","me","love","love","love","rain","love","me","me","rain","book","book","rain","book","catch","watch"]
If I use this:
from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(lists)
print(counts)
it will come result:
Counter({'love': 5, 'me': 4, 'rain': 3, 'book': 3, 'sleep': 1, 'catch': 1, 'watch': 1})
But my expected result is:
Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance
Love : 5
Me : 4
Rain : 3
Book : 3
So "sleep","catch" and "watch" will not be included in my result
How do I modify my code so my code will have output like my expected result, I mean sort by XX words that have highest value of occurance.
Thank you very much
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Answer Source
from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(lists).most_common(4)
print ("Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance")
print ("\n".join([str(x)+ " : " + str(y) for x,y in counts]))
output:
Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance
love : 5
me : 4
rain : 3
book : 3
sleep : 1
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