On 2008-05-09 18:53:19 -0600, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
On May 9, 5:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be the best method to print the top results, the one's that
had the highest amount of anagrams?? Create a new histogram dict?
You can use the max() function to find the biggest list of anagrams:
top_results = max(anagrams.itervalues(), key=len)
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Arnaud
That is the biggest list of anagrams, what if I wanted the 3 biggest
lists? Is there a way to specific top three w/ a max command??
import heapq
help(heapq.nlargest)
Help on function nlargest in module heapq:
nlargest(n, iterable, key=None)
Find the n largest elements in a dataset.
Equivalent to: sorted(iterable, key=key, reverse=True)[:n]
HTH,
George
I both the 'nlargest' and the 'sorted' methods.. I could only get the
sorted to work.. however it would only return values like (3, edam)
not the list of words..
Here is what I have now.. Am I over-analyzing this? It doesn't seem
like it should be this hard to get the program to print the largest set
of anagrams first...
def anafind():
fin = open('text.txt')
mapdic = {}
finalres = [] # top answers go here
for line in fin:
line = line.strip()
alphaword = ''.join(sorted(line)) #sorted word as key
if alphaword not in mapdic:
mapdic[alphaword] = [line]
else:
mapdic[alphaword].append(line)
topans = sorted((len(mapdic[key]), key) for key in mapdic.keys())[-3:]
#top 3 answers
for key, value in topans: #
finalres.append(mapdic[value])
print finalres
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