letter frequency counter / your thoughts..

[Paul Hankin]

On May 7, 5:39 pm, umpsu... at gmail.com 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)

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Paul Hankin