Jon Bowlas wrote: > I have the following list containing dictionaries and I would like to > be able to count the total number of dictionaries I have that contain > a certain value set for the 'level' key:
> For example I'd like to kow how many dictionaries there are with a > level 1, 2 , 23 & 3 etc. How would one go about achieveing this? from collections import defaultdict freq = defaultdict(int) for course in courses: freq[course[u"level"]] += 1 print freq Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list