most common email

Author: chingiz

MostCommonEmail/MostCommonEmail.py

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+# Seeking email that sent the most emails from email logs (text file)
+
+# 1. Request file name
+fname = raw_input('Enter file name: ')
+
+# 2. File handle
+fhandle = open(fname)
+
+# 3. Create dictionary
+counts = dict()
+
+# 4. Variable: first word to look for in each sentence
+x = 'From'
+
+# 5. Loop through each sentence
+for line in fhandle:
+    # 6. Create list
+    words = line.split()
+
+    # 7. Guardian pattern for empty lines
+    if len(words) < 1:
+        continue
+
+    # To ignore all sentences starting from "From:"
+    # if words[0] == 'From:':
+    #     continue
+
+    # 8. Ignore all other than x
+    if words[0] != x:
+        continue
+
+    # print words
+    # shows position 2 has the emails
+
+    email = words[1]
+
+    # 9. Map key-value pairs to dictionary
+    counts[email] = counts.get(email, 0) + 1
+
+    # print counts
+    # shows you have a dictionary with key-value pairs of format email:count
+
+# 10. Convert dictionary to list of tuples
+counts = counts.items()
+
+# 11. Loop through lists to convert to value-key tuples
+lst = list()
+for k, v in counts:
+    lst.append((v, k))
+
+lst = sorted(lst)
+
+# Least common
+print lst[0]
+
+# Most common
+print lst[-1]

README.md

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 #### Requirements : 
     Python 3.5+
+
+### MostCommonEmail:
+    Seeking email that sent the most emails from email logs (text file)
+
+### Requirements:
+    Python 3.5+