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Most Wanted - Simple Solution solution in Clear category for The Most Wanted Letter by zsimple21
# migrated from python 2.7
import re
def checkio(text):
# first bring string to lower case and find all letters only!
ntext = re.findall("[a-z]", text.lower())
# sort the list to get it as alphabetically in order as possible
ntext.sort()
# letter is going to equal first char in string
letter=ntext[0]
for i in ntext:
# if the char count of the first letter is larger
if ntext.count(i) > ntext.count(letter):
#replace first letter with most seen letter
letter=i
return letter
if __name__ == '__main__':
#These "asserts" using only for self-checking and not necessary for auto-testing
assert checkio("Hello World!") == "l", "Hello test"
assert checkio("How do you do?") == "o", "O is most wanted"
assert checkio("One") == "e", "All letter only once."
assert checkio("Oops!") == "o", "Don't forget about lower case."
assert checkio("AAaooo!!!!") == "a", "Only letters."
assert checkio("abe") == "a", "The First."
print("Start the long test")
assert checkio("a" * 9000 + "b" * 1000) == "a", "Long."
print("The local tests are done.")
May 7, 2015
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