pyCommonestWordsInBook

# Find the ten commonest words in "Alice In Wonderland"
import re
word_dict = {}
freq_list = []
with open("Alice.txt") as alice:
    text = alice.read()     # Read the whole text in one go!
    text = text.lower()     # Convert the whole text to lower case
    # Split the text on all word separators
    text_list2 = re.split(', |; |: |\. |"|[ ]+|\'|\n', text)
    # Build a dictionary of all words in the text, keeping a tally of each word
    for word in text_list2:
        if word in word_dict:
            word_dict[word] += 1
        else:
            word_dict[word] = 1
    # Now construct a list of tuples holding (count, word)
    for word in word_dict.keys():
        freq_list.append((word_dict[word], word))
    # Sort the word list by count (in descending order)
    freq_list.sort(reverse=True)
    # Print the top 10 commonest words
    for x in range(1, 11):          # (skip the first, which is "space" [goodness knows why it is])
        tup = freq_list[x]
        print(tup[1].ljust(12), tup[0])