ssecorp wrote:
> dict.update({"a":1}) SETS the dict item "a" 's value to 1.
>
> i want to increase it by 1. isnt that possible in an easy way? I
> should use a tuple for this?
1) Don't use dict as name for a dictionary, it shadows the type dict
2) setdefault is your friend
d = {}
d['a'] = d.setdefault('a', 1) + 1
Diez