Hi, Let's say I have an arbitrary list of minor software versions of an imaginary software product:
l = [ "1.1.1.1", "1.2.2.2", "1.2.2.3", "1.3.1.2", "1.3.4.5"] I'd like to create a dict with major_version : count. (So, in this case: dict_of_counts = { "1.1" : "1", "1.2" : "2", "1.3" : "2" } Something like: dict_of_counts = dict([(v[0:3], "count") for v in l]) I can't seem to figure out how to get "count", as I cannot do x += 1 or x++ as x may or may not yet exist, and I haven't found a way to create default values. I'm most probably not thinking pythonically enough... (I know I could do this pretty easily with a couple more lines, but I'd like to understand if there's a way to use a dict generator for this). Thanks in advance SM -- Simon Mullis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list