>>>>> "Kent" == Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kent> if frequency.has_key(word): Kent> frequency[word] += 1 Kent> else: Kent> frequency[word] = 1 This is a good place to use 'get' method of dict: frequency[word] = frequency.get(word,0) + 1 -- Ville Vainio http://tinyurl.com/2prnb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list