[Dan Sommers] > Curious that in this lengthy discussion, a method name of "accumulate" > never came up. I'm not sure how to separate the two cases (accumulating > scalars vs. accumulating a list), though.
Separating the two cases is essential. Also, the wording should contain strong cues that remind you of addition and of building a list. For the first, how about addup(): d = {} for word in text.split(): d.addup(word) Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list