In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Nelson wrote:
> This is exactly what I want to do: every time I encounter this kind of
> value in my code, increment the appropriate type by one. Then I'd like
> to go back and find out how many of each type there were. This way
> I've written seems simple enough and effective, but it's very ugly and
> I don't think it's the intended use of lists. Does anyone know a
> cleaner way to have the same funtionality?
How about this:
map = {}
def increment(value):
map[value] = map.get(value, 0) + 1
?
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