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def count_words(s, n):
"""Return the n most frequently occuring words in s ordered by number
of ocurrences and alfabetically."""
ws = {}
for w in s.split():
if w in ws.keys():
ws[w]+=1
else:
ws[w]=1
sorted_ws = sorted(ws.items(), key=lambda x: (-x[1], x[0]))
return sorted_ws[0:n]
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