Op 20 jan 2006 vond Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Or in other words, define a function to return a dictionary containing > a count of the number of occurrences of each element in the list (this > assumes that the list elements are hashable). Then you just add up the > values in the test list making sure each count is limited to no higher > than the reference count.
Thanks. Though I don't know much about python (yet), this is more or less the way I'de do it the language I'm more comfortable with (object pascal), and I wouldn't label this as a pythonic solution. I could be wrong, though:) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list