Python: Get the k most frequent elements from a given non-empty list of words using Heap queue algorithm
Python heap queue algorithm: Exercise-14 with Solution
Write a Python program to get the k most frequent elements from a given non-empty list of words using the heap queue algorithm
Note:
Range of k, 1 ≤ k ≤ number of unique elements and input words contain only lowercase letters.
Sample Solution:
Python Code:
import heapq
from collections import Counter
class Solution:
def top_K_Frequent(self, words, k):
"""
:type words: List[str]
:type k: int
:return type: List[str]
"""
ctr = Counter(words)
heap = [(-ctr[word], word) for word in ctr]
heapq.heapify(heap)
return [heapq.heappop(heap)[1] for _ in range(k)]
if __name__ == '__main__':
words = ["a", "abc", "abcdef", "a", "abcd", "abcd", "abc", "abcdefg"]
k = 3
s = Solution()
print("3 most frequent elements:")
print(s.top_K_Frequent(words, k))
Sample Output:
3 most frequent elements: ['a', 'abc', 'abcd']
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