On 22Mar2014 00:04, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/03/2014 21:39, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >On 21Mar2014 20:31, Mustafa Musameh <jmm...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >I would collect the statistics using a dictionary to keep count of
> >the characters. See the dict.setdefault method; it should be helpful.
> >
>
> Delightfully old fashioned but I'd now prefer
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter
> :)
Maybe, but using a dictionary is easy and Mustafa will learn more.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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It is your job to find ways around your boss's roadblocks.
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