I was writing a script that counts occurrences of characters in source code files:
#!/usr/bin/python import codecs tcounters = {} f = codecs.open('/home/gavron/git/screen/src/screen.c', 'r', "utf-8") for uline in f: lline = [] for char in uline[:-1]: lline += [char] counters = {} for i in set(lline): counters[i] = lline.count(i) for c in counters.keys(): if c in tcounters: tcounters[c] += counters[c] else: tcounters.update({c: counters[c]}) counters = {} for c in tcounters.keys(): print c, '\t', tcounters[c] I was looking for a way to stat by finger actions on a US keyboard for a traditional typist, and I was thinking I could use another dictionary with keys that would be made up of the characters correponding to each finger, such as '!1QqAaZz' for the left pinky, etc., hoping I would be able to iterate the keys and match the currently processed character with the key and increment it. Is this something that makes sense, or should I look elsewhere? Suggestions to improve the above snippet are also welcome. Thanks, CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list