Using dictionary key as a regular expression class

[Steve Holden]

Chris Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:07:13PM EST, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>> import codecs
>> from collections import defaultdict
>>
>> tcounters = defaultdict(int)
>> f = codecs.open('/home/gavron/git/screen/src/screen.c', 'r', "utf-8")
>>
>> for c in f.read():
>>     tcounters[c] += 1
>>
>> for c, n in tcounters.iteritems():
>>     print "%r\t%i" % (c, n)
> 
> Ah, yes.. much better - I grew suspicious of my 'effort' when I realized
> I could have written a shorter version in C. :-)
> 
Congratulations. That perception shows a sound appreciation of Python's
design.

regards
 Steve
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