Adding functionality to your package

Thanks to your work before, you already have a skeleton for your python package. In this exercise, you will work to define the functions needed for a text analysis of word usage.

In the file counter_utils.py, you will write 2 functions to be a part of your package: plot_counter and sum_counters. The structure of your package can be seen in the tree below. For the coding portions of this exercise, you will be working in the file counter_utils.py.

text_analyzer
├── __init__.py
└── counter_utils.py

This exercise is part of the course

Software Engineering Principles in Python

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import needed functionality
from collections import Counter

def plot_counter(counter, n_most_common=5):
  # Subset the n_most_common items from the input counter
  top_items = ____.most_common(____)
  # Plot `top_items`
  plot_counter_most_common(top_items)

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