How to write a code in Python to read a text document and list words from most to least frequent?

Question

the title says it all - I would like to analyze some books and make word (pattern in Python I suppose) statistics as an output. any idea how to do this?

Answer 1

Use the Counter module
https://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html

You can input an array of the words and there’s a most_common method

Answer 2

\ but wrong why?

Answer 3

Thanks Ariela!