5.1 A function for the most common words

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5.1 A function for the most common words

count gives the counts in no useful order. To find the most common words, tally must sort the counts, most common first, and keep the first few. A function, top, does it. It sorts by count, highest first, and then by the word, so that two words with the same count keep one order. Then it keeps the first n.

Apply the patch to src/tally/__init__.py, from the top of the project:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/rahuldave/tally/commit/72a0129dcee765132ad267788636ff4af9066369.diff | git apply --include=src/tally/__init__.py

The patch puts top after count and before main, with two blank lines around it.

A test says what top must give. It gives top three words with their counts, and asks for the two most common.

Apply the patch to tests/test_top.py, from the top of the project:

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The patch makes the file tests/test_top.py, with its one test.

uv run python -m unittest discover -s tests -q

The four tests pass.

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What changed

src/tally/__init__.py: sort by count, most common first, then by the word. 5 lines added. The file.
- look at return sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda pair: (-pair[1], pair[0]))[:n]
tests/test_top.py: its test, with three words. New, 8 lines. The file.

The patch to src/tally/__init__.py

@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ def count(text: str) -> dict[str, int]:
     return counts
 
 
+def top(counts: dict[str, int], n: int) -> list[tuple[str, int]]:
+    "The n most common words, most common first."
+    return sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda pair: (-pair[1], pair[0]))[:n]
+
+
 def main() -> None:
     text = open(sys.argv[1]).read() if len(sys.argv) > 1 else sys.stdin.read()
     for word, n in sorted(count(text).items()):

The patch to tests/test_top.py

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import unittest
+
+from tally import top
+
+
+class Top(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_most_common_first(self):
+        self.assertEqual(top({"a": 1, "b": 3, "c": 2}, 2), [("b", 3), ("c", 2)])

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