[Tutor] Ideas on making this cleaner?

[Mats Wichmann]

On 5/4/24 11:32, ThreeBlindQuarks via Tutor wrote:
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> Leam,
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> I some cases, a dictionary is a useful method to consolidate multiple cases.
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> For example, your vowels:
>> self.syllable_count += line.count("a")
>> self.syllable_count += line.count("e")
>> self.syllable_count += line.count("i")
>> self.syllable_count += line.count("o")
>> self.syllable_count += line.count("u")
>> self.syllable_count -= line.count("ee")
>> self.syllable_count -= line.count("oi")
>> self.syllable_count -= line.count("oo")
>> self.syllable_count -= line.count("ou")
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> You could initialize a dictionary like Vowels with keys like "a" through "ou" initialized to zero and increment it when a vowel is encountered.

In fact, the stdlib Counter class can be helpful in such usage:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#counter-objects