Merge pull request textstat#57 from catethos/master

Using Counter to obtain the Readability Consensus

Author: alxwrd

textstat/textstat.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import re
 import math
 import operator
+from collections import Counter
 
 import pkg_resources
 import repoze.lru
@@ -332,13 +333,12 @@ def text_standard(self, text, float_output=None):
  grade.append(int(upper))
 
  # Finding the Readability Consensus based upon all the above tests
- d = dict([(x, grade.count(x)) for x in grade])
- sorted_x = sorted(d.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))
- final_grade = str((sorted_x)[len(sorted_x)-1])
- score = final_grade.split(',')[0].strip('(')
-
+ d = Counter(grade)
+ final_grade = d.most_common(1)
+ score = final_grade[0][0]
+ 
  if float_output:
- return score
+ return float(score)
  else:
  return "{}th and {}th grade".format(
  str(int(score)-1), str(int(score))