On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Chelsea G <cegarcia0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to create a loop to print out the most common phrases with the
> counts 5 or greater and the rest to be bucketed into other category. How do
> I write the loop to print out the common phrases that have counts of 5 or
> more? This is my code so far:
>
Can you explain what you mean by common phrases with a count of 5 or more?
Show some same input file data here to better explain your assignment.
>
> import csv#from sys import argvfrom collections import defaultdictfrom
> collections import Counter#script, filename = argv
> data = defaultdict(list)
> class dictionary:
>
I think this looks like function code -- not a class
> with open ('practice.csv', 'rb') as f:
> reader = csv.reader(f)
> #text_file = open("output.txt", "w")
> next(reader, None)
> for row in reader:
> data[row[2]].append(row[3])
>
> why is row[2] and row[3] the only data you want to collect? You defined
data outside of your function -- not good.
> #text_file.write("%r" % data)
>
> #text_file.close()
>
> #print(data)
>
> text_file = open("count.txt", "w")
> data_count = Counter()
> for d in data.values():
> data_count += Counter(d)
> print data_count.most_common(5)
> text_file.write("%r" % data_count.most_common(5))
> text_file.close()
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This code is quite a mess. That's ok. Try to write code to just read the
file first. Work from there
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