MRAB: > from collections import defaultdict > match_counter = defaultdict(int) > for line in fileinput.input(sys.argv[1:]): > ip = line.split()[0] > match_counter[ip] += 1
This can be a little faster still: match_counter = defaultdict(int) for line in fileinput.input(sys.argv[1:]): ip = line.split(None, 1)[0] match_counter[ip] += 1 Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list