[Tutor] Simple counter to determine frequencies of words in a document

[Emile van Sebille]

On 11/21/2010 8:15 AM Josep M. Fontana said...

>   return sorted(word_table.items(), key=lambda item: item[1], reverse=True)
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> What I don't understand is the syntax of "item : item[1]".

Key defines a lambda function that accepts as a single passed parameter 
named item and returns the element in position [1] thereof.

HTH,

Emile