On May 7, 5:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is my code for a letter frequency counter. It seems bloated to > me and any suggestions of what would be a better way (keep in my mind > I'm a beginner) would be greatly appreciated..
Yours is a little more efficient than this, but here's a compact way to write what you want. import heapq def mostfreq(message): return heapq.nlargest(3, set(message), key=message.count) -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list