On May 7, 1:31 pm, "Ian Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Paul Melis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dic = {} > > for letter in strng: > > if letter not in dic: > > dic[letter] = 0 > > dic[letter] += 1 > > As a further refinement, you could use the defaultdict class from the > collections module: > > dic = defaultdict(int) > for letter in strng: > dic[letter] += 1
Sounds like novel flow of control. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list