Use of collections.Counter() (new in Python 2.7) object instead of defaultDict.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index f62a0e9a..f17c65cd 100755
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
 from datetime import datetime
 from string import punctuation
-from collections import defaultdict
+from collections import Counter
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
 from StringIO import StringIO
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def top_words(dic_articles, n=10, size=5):
     words_gen = [word for word in articles_content.split() if len(word) > size]
     words_gen = [word.strip(punctuation).lower() for word in words_gen]
 
-    words = defaultdict(int)
+    words = Counter()
     for word in words_gen:
         words[word] += 1
     top_words = sorted(words.iteritems(),