Question

In python and without using Libraries (comment the code and please don't use lambda code):

Write a function called mostfrequent that takes one string argument containing a
list of words separated by commas (e.g., “apple,banana,apple,pear”, note there
are no spaces). The function must return the word that occurs most frequently in
the input string. You can assume there will be no ties in frequency.
Examples:
mostfrequent(“apple,apple,banana,apple,peach,banana”)  “apple”
mostfrequent(“apple,banana,banana,apple,peach,banana”)  “banana”
mostfrequent(“apple”)  “apple”

Answer 1

CODE

def mostfrequent(sentence):

List = sentence.split(",")

counter = 0

num = List[0]

for i in List:

curr_frequency = List.count(i)

if(curr_frequency> counter):

counter = curr_frequency

num = i

return num

print(mostfrequent("apple,apple,banana,apple,peach,banana"))

print(mostfrequent("apple,banana,banana,apple,peach,banana"))

print(mostfrequent("apple"))