NLTK python error: “TypeError: 'dict_keys' object is not subscriptable”

Question

I am following instructions for a class homework assignment and I am supposed to look up the top 200 most frequently used words in a text file.

Here\'s the last par

Answer 1

fdist1 = FreqDist(NSmyText)

vocab=fdist1.keys()

This code is using in Python2.7. So you should do some change. dic.keys() returns an iteratable. So using:

list(fdist1.keys())

Answer 2

If your using python 3 try:

fdist1.most_common(200)

instead, to get the 200 most frequent words.

Answer 3

To print the most frequently used 200 words use: fdist1.most_common(200) The above line of code will return the 200 most frequently used words as key-frequency pair.

Answer 4

I am using python 3.5 and I meet the same problem of TypeError.

Using vocab = list(fdist1.keys()) does not give me the top 50 most frequently used words.
But fdist1.most_common(50) does.

Further,if you just want to show those top 50 words not with their frequency,you can try :

[word for (word, freq) in fdist1.most_common(50)]

Answer 5

Looks like you are using Python 3. In Python 3 dict.keys() returns an iterable but not indexable object. The most simple (but not so efficient) solution would be:

vocab = list(fdist1.keys())