Counting number of words and organize for the bigger frequencies to the small ones.

[valeriorsneto]

Hi, everybody
I am doing a systematic literature review and I copied all the references used in my sample. I would like to identify the most common words in order to identify the authors most citted. I did this so far:

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import sys     print(sys.argv[1])   f = open(sys.argv[1]) my_file_contents = f.read()   #print(f.read())   def word_count(str):     counts = dict()     words = str.split()       for word in words:         if word in counts:             counts[word] += 1         else:             counts[word] = 1       return counts   print(word_count(my_file_contents))

I was able to identify every word's number, but I do not know how to present from the terms with the most frequent to the fewer ones. Can somebody help me?

nilamo write Feb-05-2021, 08:30 PM:
Please use python tags in the future

[perfringo]

For counting Python has Counter which has convenient most_common and other stuff useful while conducting counting.