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
dict.get() allows a default argument that will be used if the key doesn't
exist, so this can be shortened to
for name in namelist:
d[name] = d.get(name, 0) + 1
Kent
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