Name: Anonymous 2011-09-18 20:34
Hi guys.
It's clear that I don't know shit about programming, so let's get that out of the way.
I'm trying to define a python (2.x) function that'll loop through a number of texts, get the relative frequency of a certain word in each of those texts (number of times the word is used / total words * 100), and then sort the frequencies and tell me which text has the highest one and what the frequency for that text is.
I made a list with the texts as elements, and then I used a for-loop to go through the list. Getting and sorting the frequencies isn't hard if I stick them in a list, but I can't figure out how to keep the right texts associated with the sorted frequencies. If I make a list with pairs like '0.071203, <Text: Moby Dick by Herman Melville 1851>' , I can't sort the frequencies. If I make a list with just the frequencies, I don't know which texts they belong to.
Is there a simple way to do this?
It's clear that I don't know shit about programming, so let's get that out of the way.
I'm trying to define a python (2.x) function that'll loop through a number of texts, get the relative frequency of a certain word in each of those texts (number of times the word is used / total words * 100), and then sort the frequencies and tell me which text has the highest one and what the frequency for that text is.
I made a list with the texts as elements, and then I used a for-loop to go through the list. Getting and sorting the frequencies isn't hard if I stick them in a list, but I can't figure out how to keep the right texts associated with the sorted frequencies. If I make a list with pairs like '0.071203, <Text: Moby Dick by Herman Melville 1851>' , I can't sort the frequencies. If I make a list with just the frequencies, I don't know which texts they belong to.
Is there a simple way to do this?