Hi as per the earlier post.
Given the following list:
['Jellicle', 'Cats', 'are', 'black', 'and', 'white,', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 'are', 'rather', 'small;', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 'are', 'merry', 'and', 'bright,', 'And', 'pleasant', 'to', 'hear', 'when', 'they', 'caterwaul.', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 'have', 'cheerful', 'faces,', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 'have', 'bright', 'black', 'eyes;', 'They', 'like', 'to', 'practise', 'their', 'airs', 'and', 'graces', 'And', 'wait', 'for', 'the', 'Jellicle', 'Moon', 'to', 'rise.', '']
I am trying to count how many times each word THAT STARTS WITH A CAPITAL appears and display the top 3.
I am not interested in words that do not start with a capital.
If a word appears multiple times, sometimes starting with a capital and sometimes not, only count the times it does with a capital.
THis is what my code looks like currently:
words = ""
for word in open('novel.txt', 'rU'):
words += word
words = words.split(' ')
words= list(words)
words = ('\n'.join(words)).split('\n')
word_counter = {}
for word in words:
if word in word_counter:
word_counter[word] += 1
else:
word_counter[word] = 1
popular_words = sorted(word_counter, key = word_counter.get, reverse = True)
top_3 = popular_words[:3]
matches = []
for i in range(3):
print word_counter[top_3[i]], top_3[i]