Finding the most frequent character in a string

Question

I found this programming problem while looking at a job posting on SO. I thought it was pretty interesting and as a beginner Python programmer I attempted to tackle it. Howe

Answer 1

#file:filename
#quant:no of frequent words you want

def frequent_letters(file,quant):
    file = open(file)
    file = file.read()
    cnt = Counter
    op = cnt(file).most_common(quant)
    return op