How to sort word frequency in a list (but not all of them printed) in Python

Question

I have to count the word frequency in a list using python, but what I want is I want to count the words according to its occurance, but I dont't want to print it all

For the example, i have this list

lists = ["me","sleep","love","me","love","love","love","rain","love","me","me","rain","book","book","rain","book","catch","watch"]

If I use this:

from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(lists)
print(counts)

it will come result:

Counter({'love': 5, 'me': 4, 'rain': 3, 'book': 3, 'sleep': 1, 'catch': 1, 'watch': 1})

But my expected result is:

Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance
Love : 5
Me : 4
Rain : 3
Book : 3

So "sleep","catch" and "watch" will not be included in my result How do I modify my code so my code will have output like my expected result, I mean sort by XX words that have highest value of occurance.

Thank you very much

it's not sorting, its filtering – RomanPerekhrest Oct 02 '17 at 17:22 — RomanPerekhrest, Oct 02 '17 at 17:22

prudhvi Indana · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-02T17:35:35.417

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from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(lists).most_common(4)
print ("Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance")
print ("\n".join([str(x)+ " : " + str(y) for x,y in counts]))

output:

Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance
love : 5
me : 4
rain : 3
book : 3
sleep : 1

edited Oct 02 '17 at 17:35

answered Oct 02 '17 at 17:20

prudhvi Indana

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Thank you very much :D, it solved by sorting problem...... but how can I rewrite the output so it will be exactly same as my expected result? so the result will be better readable :D thanks before – Richard Dabel Oct 02 '17 at 17:28
once you are able to get most common elements, you should be able to do it, so is not code writing service. – prudhvi Indana Oct 02 '17 at 17:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 02 '17 at 20:24

How do I modify my code so my code will have output like my expected result

from collections import Counter


lists = ["me","sleep","love","me","love","love","love","rain","love",
         "me","me","rain","book","book","rain","book","catch","watch"]

counts = Counter(lists).most_common(4)
print ("Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance")
for word, count in counts:
    print("{} : {}".format(word.title(), count))

Output

Sort by 4 words that have highest occurance
Love : 5
Me : 4
Book : 3
Rain : 3

Note: no rule is specified for ordering entries with duplicate values, e.g. Book and Rain

How to sort word frequency in a list (but not all of them printed) in Python

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