How can I find top words frequencies of combined files?

[otto531]

I need to take two files and print the top most frequent words they have in common as well as their combined(sum) frequencies.

def mostFrequent(word,frequency,n):
   my_list = zip(word,frequency) #combine the two lists
   my_list.sort(key=lambda x:x[1],reverse=True) #sort by freq
   words,freqs = zip(*my_list[:n]) #take the top n entries and split back to seperate lists
   return words, freqs #return our most frequent words in order   
from wordFrequencies import * #gives both the word and its frequency in a file
L1 = wordFrequencies('file1.txt')
words1 = L1[0]
freqs1 = L1[1]
L2 = wordFrequencies('file2.txt')
words2 = L2[0]
freqs2 = L2[1]
print mostFrequent(words,freqs,20)

I've tried

L1 = WordFrequencies('file1.txt')
words1 = set(L1[0])
freqs1 = set(L1[1])
L2 = WordFrequencies('file2.txt')
words2 = set(L2[0])
freqs2 = set(L2[1])
words3 = words1.intersection(words2)
freqs3 = freqs1.intersection(freqs2)
print mostFrequent(words3,freqs3,20)

but it didn't work. It outputed the wrong words

[dwblas]

We don't have the code for the function WordFrequencies(). It looks like it is returning some kind of container containing the word and the number of times it is found. The answer depends on if "L1" and "L2" (non-descriptive variable names don't tell us anything) are lists, sets, or dictionaries. In whatever case, combine the two and do a sort on the number converted to an integer if it is not one already, so the container will be in order of frequency. Then print how ever many words you want. On the code you posted, I would suggest that you print words1 and freqs1 as I don't think it contains what you want.

 L1 = WordFrequencies('file1.txt')
words1 = set(L1[0])
freqs1 = set(L1[1])