Re: [Tutor] Counting help

[Scott Oertel]

Byron wrote: Luis N wrote: Ideally, you would put your names into a list or dictionary to make working with them easier. If all you're trying to do is count them (and your list of names is long), you might consider a dictionary which you would use like so: #This is just the first thing I considered. l = ['a list of names'] d = {} for name in namelist: if d.has_key(name): x = d.get(name) d[name] = x + 1 else: d[name] = 1 100% agreed. I have used this approach before and it works great... Byron Thanks for the snipplet, it's perfect for what I'm doing, I wasn't aware of the has_key() or get(), this is very usefull. -Scott Oertel

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