Hi Tutors,
I have two pickled dictionaries containing word counts from two different
corpora. I need to add the values, so that a word count is the sum of both.
If the word "man" has a count of 2 in corpus A and a count of 3 in corpus B,
then I need a new dictionary that has "man": 5. Please let me know whether
the following is correct/incorrect, good/bad, etc.
Your help appreciated:
def addDicts(a, b):
c = {}
for k in a:
if k not in b:
c[k] = a[k]
else:
c[k] = a[k] + b[k]
for k in b:
if k not in a:
c[k] = b[k]
return c
# test this
dict1 = {"dad": 3, "man": 2}
dict2 = {"dad": 5, "woman": 10}
newDict = addDicts(dict1, dict2)
print(newDict)
# This gives
{'dad': 8, 'woman': 10, 'man': 2}
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لا أعرف مظلوما تواطأ الناس علي هضمه ولا زهدوا في إنصافه كالحقيقة.....محمد
الغزالي
"No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth"
Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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