[Tutor] Counting help

[Scott Oertel]

Byron wrote:

>Luis N wrote:
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>>Ideally, you would put your names into a list or dictionary to make
>>working with them easier. If all you're trying to do is count them
>>(and your list of names is long), you might consider a dictionary
>>which you would use like so:
>>
>>#This is just the first thing I considered.
>>
>>l = ['a list of names']
>>
>>d = {}
>>
>>for name in namelist:
>>   if d.has_key(name):
>>       x = d.get(name)
>>       d[name] = x + 1
>>   else:
>>       d[name] = 1      
>>
>>    
>>
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>100% agreed.  I have used this approach before and it works great... 
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>Byron
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Thanks for the snipplet, it's perfect for what I'm doing, I wasn't aware 
of the has_key() or get(), this is very usefull.


-Scott Oertel




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