Thanks so much I changed to the following and this worked: def HolderDistributionqty(dictionary): from collections import defaultdict count=defaultdict(int) for item in dictionary.values(): count[len(item)]+=1 for k,v in sorted(count.items()): fdist=k qty=v print fdist,qty
M. On 10/1/07, GTXY20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks again I have worked that issue out. > > However I have the following function and it is throwing this error: > > FEXpython_v2.py", line 32, in UnitHolderDistributionqty > count[item]+=1 > KeyError: 3 > > This is the function: > > def Distributionqty(dictionary): > holder=list() > held=list() > distqtydic={} > count={} > for key in sorted(dictionary.keys()): > holder.append(key) > held.append(len(dictionary[key])) > for (key, value) in map(None, holder, held): > distqtydic[key]=value > for item in distqtydic.values(): > count[item]+=1 > for k,v in sorted(count.items()): > fdist=k > qty=v > print fdist,qty > > Not sure... > > M. > > > > On 10/1/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > GTXY20 wrote: > > > > > > This works perfectly. > > > > > > However I will be dealing with an import of a very large dictionary - > > if > > > I call the commands at command line this seems to be very taxing on > > the > > > CPU and memory and will take a long time. > > > > > > I was thinking of creating each as a fucntion whereby python would > > just > > > to write to a file instead of calling within a python shell do you > > think > > > that this would speed up the process? > > > > I don't understand what you are suggesting. > > > > Both of your requirements just need the values of the dict. If the dict > > is being created from a file, you could probably build the count dicts > > on the fly as you read the values without ever creating the dict with > > all the items in it. > > > > Kent > > > > > > > > All in total I will probably be looking at about 2 million dictionary > > > keys with assorted value quantities. > > > >
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