[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch:
counter['B'] = counter.get('B', 0) + 1
If you benchmark it, you will find that using the get() method it's
quite slower.
Slower than
if 'B' in counter:
> counter['B'] += 1
> else:
> counter['B'] = 1
?
It is not slower than defaultdict which I have compared to
>> counter['B'] = counter.get('B', 0) + 1
on a file with 125,000 additions default dict was significantly slower
(only ~40seconds v ~30 secs for get) and used twice the memory.
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