frequency.py

""" Analyzes the word frequencies in a book downloaded from
Project Gutenberg """

import string


def get_word_list(file_name):
    """ Reads the specified project Gutenberg book.  Header comments,
    punctuation, and whitespace are stripped away.  The function
    returns a list of the words used in the book as a list.
    All words are converted to lower case.
    """
    pass


def get_top_n_words(word_list, n):
    """ Takes a list of words as input and returns a list of the n most frequently
    occurring words ordered from most to least frequently occurring.

    word_list: a list of words (assumed to all be in lower case with no
    punctuation
    n: the number of words to return
    returns: a list of n most frequently occurring words ordered from most
    frequently to least frequentlyoccurring
    """
    pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Running WordFrequency Toolbox")
    print(string.punctuation)