Exercise

The file „hacker_poll.txt“ contains the results of a poll with the question “What’s your favorite programming language?”

(started 2012, latest update October 2014)

Please read in the file and print out the top ten values.

data = []

fh = open("hacker_poll.txt")

for line in fh:

language, votes = line.strip().rsplit(None, 1)

data.append((language, int(votes)))

data.sort(key=lambda x: (x[1], x[0]), reverse = True)

top10 = data[:10]

print(top10)

Notes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692