[Tutor] Counting Items in a List

[mariocatch]

Here's one way, can surely be optimized:

*    paragraph = "This paragraph contains words once, more than once, and
possibly not at all either. Figure that one out. "
    para = paragraph.strip('.').strip(',').strip().split()
    wordDict = {}
    for word in para:
        word = word.strip('.').strip(',')
        if wordDict.has_key(word):
            wordDict[word] += 1
        else:
            wordDict[word] = 1*
*    print wordDict
*
-Mario
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

> On 20/06/12 16:20, Martin A. Brown wrote:
>
>   : should have written something like "counting how many times each
>>  : word occured" insted of "counting words".
>>
>> You might like to try out collections.defaultdict().
>>
>
> Even a standard dict would simplify the code dramatically.
> The defaultdict does suit this case better though.
>
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> Alan G
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