Problem with Lists & Index command

[Timothy R Evans]

Doug Hellmann <doughellmann at mindspring.com> writes:

> 
> wordcounts = {}
> for word in document.words():
>   try:
>     wordcounts[word] = wordcounts[word] + 1
>   except KeyError:
>     wordcounts[word] = 1

Alternaively, use the `get' method on the dictionary, which will
return a default value if the key is not found.  In this case you want 
a default value of 0, so the lines become:

wordcounts = {}
for word in documents.words():
    wordcounts[word] = wordcounts.get(word,0) + 1

Its not actually any different, just smaller.

--
Tim Evans