Function getFrequencyOrder

other/frequency_finder.py:27–47

(message)

    return x[0]

def getFrequencyOrder(message):
    letterToFreq = getLetterCount(message)
    freqToLetter = {}
    for letter in LETTERS:
        if letterToFreq[letter] not in freqToLetter:
            freqToLetter[letterToFreq[letter]] = [letter]
        else:
            freqToLetter[letterToFreq[letter]].append(letter)

    for freq in freqToLetter:
        freqToLetter[freq].sort(key = ETAOIN.find, reverse = True)
        freqToLetter[freq] = ''.join(freqToLetter[freq])

    freqPairs = list(freqToLetter.items())
    freqPairs.sort(key = getItemAtIndexZero, reverse = True)

    freqOrder = []
    for freqPair in freqPairs:
        freqOrder.append(freqPair[1])

    return ''.join(freqOrder)

def englishFreqMatchScore(message):
    '''