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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:37:20 +0000, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
wrote:


>
>Your list is flat so the unpacking fails.  For it to work, you need
>your list to be of the form:
>
>    wordFreq2 = [('with', 3), ('which', 1), ('were', 2), ('well', 1)]
>
>Then it will work.  The quickest way to transform your list to the
>required form is something like this:
>
	Well... From my viewpoint, the quickest way is to load the list
correctly in the first place... Where does this list come from? If it's
a file of
		word		count
pairs, then

wordFreq2 = []
for ln in inputFile:
	(word, freq) = ln.strip().split()	#any line with more or less than
									#2 entries will fail
	wordFreq2.append(	(word, int(freq))	)

	Modify as needed if the file is
		word
		count
...


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