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Arevos · Dec 26th, 2005, 3:59 AM

You might want to think about using a dictionary to hold the counts of your items:

d = {}
for x in y:
    d[x] = d.get(x, 1) + 1

And perhaps giving your variables and functions longer and more descriptive names. It's all too easy to forget what does what several months down the line:

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bag = {}
for item in list:
    bag[item] = bag.get(item, 1) + 1

(A bag being the technical name of the data struct your function creates.)

Dec 26th, 2005, 3:59 AM	#4
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	You might want to think about using a dictionary to hold the counts of your items: (Toggle Plain Text) d = {} for x in y: d[x] = d.get(x, 1) + 1 d = {} for x in y: d[x] = d.get(x, 1) + 1 And perhaps giving your variables and functions longer and more descriptive names. It's all too easy to forget what does what several months down the line: (Toggle Plain Text) bag = {} for item in list: bag[item] = bag.get(item, 1) + 1 bag = {} for item in list: bag[item] = bag.get(item, 1) + 1 (A bag being the technical name of the data struct your function creates.)