Most Common words using counter method

word_count_counter.py

## Import Regular Expression - Used to replace all special characters other than alphanumeric
import re

## Import Counter from collections
from collections import Counter
## Input
giventext = "This is Medium article presented by ramstkp in the month of October. On the day of writing it was cold, and autumn started early this in the october month. October month is relatively less cold compared to winter months"

## Replacing all other characters other than alphanumerics
giventext = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9 \n]', '', giventext)

## Converting to lower and splitting the text to list by word (split by space)
text_to_list = giventext.lower().split()

## User Counter method from collections
result = Counter(text_to_list)

## get most common words from result counter
print(result.most_common(5))