Jon Bowlas wrote:
> Hrmm, any ideas why I'd be getting 'SyntaxError: invalid syntax' for
> both of these?
>
>> sum(u'Level 2 Courses' in dct for dct in yourlist)
>> q = set(['1']); print q, sum(d.get('level') in q for d in thelist)
>
> The error occurs at the 'for'
> I'm afraid I can't use Peters suggestion as I'm using python 2.3 and
> it doesn't have the collection module. Thanks anyway.
John's suggestion uses a generator expression (new in 2.4). Try a list
comprehension instead:
q = set(['1']); print q, sum([d.get('level') in q for d in thelist])
You can modify my code to use normal dictionaries:
freq = {}
for course in courses:
level = course[u"level"]
freq[level] = freq.get(level, 0) + 1
print freq
Peter
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