Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > will be. For instance, when working with data from 0 to 100 and > looking for frequencies by decade, you can initialize the histogram- > dict with: > > for i in range(10): > histodict[i] = 0
A better way, of course (also saving the histodict = {} which you didn't mention but surely intended) would be: histodict = dict.fromkeys(range(10), 0) In Python, in general, the more conceptually compact, direct, simple and higher-abstraction approach tends to be faster as well, BTW. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list