On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:22:27 -0700 paul.scipi...@aps.com wrote: > I'm a newbie to Python. I have a list which contains integers (about > 80,000). I want to find a quick way to get the numbers that occur in the > list more than once, and how many times that number is duplicated in the > list. I've done this right now by looping through the list, getting a > number, querying the list to find out how many times the number exists, then > writing it to a new list. On this many records it takes a couple of minutes. > What I am looking for is something in python that can grab this info without > looping through a list.
icount = {} for i in list_of_ints: icount[i] = icount.get(i, 0) + 1 Now you have a dictionary of every integer in the list and the count of times it appears. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list