Haha! Thanks for all of the suggestions... (I love this list!)
SM 2008/9/18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sep 18, 10:54 am, "Simon Mullis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 > > Considering 3 identical "simultpost" solutions I'd say: > "one obvious way to do it" FTW :-) > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Simon Mullis _________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list