[Tutor] please help

[Cameron Simpson]

On 22Mar2014 00:04, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/03/2014 21:39, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >On 21Mar2014 20:31, Mustafa Musameh <jmmy71 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >I would collect the statistics using a dictionary to keep count of
> >the characters. See the dict.setdefault method; it should be helpful.
> >
> 
> Delightfully old fashioned but I'd now prefer
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter
> :)

Maybe, but using a dictionary is easy and Mustafa will learn more.

Cheers,
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