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MedaUser
MedaUser

Reputation: 133

Creating a list from dictionary

dictionary:

{'airport': [YearCount( year=2007, count=175702 ), YearCount( year=2008, count=173294 )], 'wandered': [YearCount( year=2005, count=83769 ), YearCount( year=2006, count=87688 ), YearCount( year=2007, count=108634 ), YearCount( year=2008, count=171015 )], 'request': [YearCount( year=2005, count=646179 ), YearCount( year=2006, count=677820 ), YearCount( year=2007, count=697645 ), YearCount( year=2008, count=795265 )]}

This counts up the total letters in the dictionary keys:

def letterlength(words):
   length = 0
    for word in words.keys():
        length += len(word)
    return length

and I'm trying to create a list with this function, but I'm not getting a list. It should return the letter frequency of the letters in the words. I know it's lengthy, but I couldn't figure out a simpler method:

def letterFreq(words):
    lst = []
    a = 0
    b = 0
    c = 0
    d=0
    e=0
    f=0
    g=0
    h=0
    i=0
    j=0
    k=0
    l=0
    m=0
    n=0
    o=0
    p=0
    q=0
    r=0
    s=0
    t=0
    u=0
    v=0
    w=0
    x=0
    y=0
    z=0
    for word in words.keys():
        a += word.count('a')
        b += word.count('b')
        c += word.count('c')
        d += word.count('d')
        e += word.count('e')
        f += word.count('f')
        g += word.count('g')
        h += word.count('h')
        i += word.count('i')
        j += word.count('j')
        k += word.count('k')
        l += word.count('l')
        m += word.count('m')
        n += word.count('n')
        o += word.count('o')
        p += word.count('p')
        q += word.count('q')
        r += word.count('r')
        s += word.count('s')
        t += word.count('t')
        u += word.count('u')
        v += word.count('v')
        w += word.count('w')
        x += word.count('x')
        y += word.count('y')
        z += word.count('z')

    return (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z)
    lst.append(a/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(b/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(c/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(d/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(e/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(f/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(g/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(h/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(i/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(j/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(k/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(l/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(m/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(n/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(o/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(p/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(q/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(r/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(s/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(t/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(u/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(v/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(w/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(x/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(y/letterlength(words))
    lst.append(z/letterlength(words))
    return lst

Upvotes: 1

Views: 112

Answers (3)

imareaver
imareaver

Reputation: 221

You could iterate over the ASCII values of each character. Assuming you already have a 26-entry list set up:

letlen = letterlength(words)
for i in range(26):
    for word in words.keys():
        lst[i]+=word.count(chr(i+ord('a'))/letlen

Upvotes: 0

Katriel
Katriel

Reputation: 123642

collections.Counter(itertools.chain(*d))

This is shorthand for some code like the following:

count = {}
for word in d:
    for letter in word:
        count[letter] = count.get(letter, 0) + 1

Upvotes: 3

nneonneo
nneonneo

Reputation: 179422

Try collections.Counter:

import collections
counter = collections.Counter()
for word in words:
    counter.update(word)

You can then obtain letter frequencies with

total = sum(counter.values())
lst = [counter[letter] / total for letter in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz']

Upvotes: 2

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