[Tutor] Dictionary - count values where values are stored as a list

[Alan Gauld]

"GTXY20" <gtxy20 at gmail.com> wrote

> Any way to display the count of the values in a dictionary where the 
> values
> are stored as a list? here is my dictionary:
>
> {'1': ['a', 'b', 'c'], '3': ['a', 'b', 'c'], '2': ['a', 'b', 'c'], 
> '4':
> ['a', 'c']}
>
> I would like to display count as follows and I would not know all 
> the value
> types in the values list:
>
> Value QTY
> a       4
> b       3
> c       4

Try a list comprehension:

data = [(key, len(D[key]) for key in D]

Printing that out becomes a simple loop:

print "Value\tQTY"
for tup in data:
    print "%s\t%s" % tup

> Also is there anyway to display the count of the values list 
> combinations so
> here again is my dictionary:
> {'1': ['a', 'b', 'c'], '3': ['a', 'b', 'c'], '2': ['a', 'b', 'c'], 
> '4':
> ['a', 'c']}
>

The same approach should work except you change the tuple values:

data = [(len(D[key]), D[key]) for key in D]

HTH,


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Alan Gauld
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