Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> will be. For instance, when working with data from 0 to 100 and
> looking for frequencies by decade, you can initialize the histogram-
> dict with:
>
> for i in range(10):
> histodict[i] = 0
A better way, of course (also saving the histodict = {} which you didn't
mention but surely intended) would be:
histodict = dict.fromkeys(range(10), 0)
In Python, in general, the more conceptually compact, direct, simple and
higher-abstraction approach tends to be faster as well, BTW.
Alex
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