collections.Counter()

面试题：使用python打印出文件中出现次数最高的10个单词及其出现次数。 

import re,collections

words=re.findall('\w+',open(r'D:\zip.txt').read().lower())

print collections.Counter(words).most_common(10)

\w （查找字母）When the LOCALE and UNICODE flags are not specified, matches any alphanumeric character and the underscore; this is equivalent to the set [a-zA-Z0-9_]. With LOCALE, it will match the set [0-9_] plus whatever characters are defined as alphanumeric for the current locale. If UNICODE is set, this will match the characters [0-9_] plus whatever is classified as alphanumeric in the Unicode character properties database. 

from collections import Counter

def main():
    print Counter("I am a boy") # Counter({' ': 3, 'a': 2, 'b': 1, 'I': 1, 'm': 1, 'o': 1, 'y': 1})
    #输出出现次数最多的前3个字符
    print Counter("I am a boy").most_common(3) # [(' ', 3), ('a', 2), ('b', 1)]
    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()