On Aug 19, 8:17 pm, "Jan Kaliszewski" <z...@chopin.edu.pl> wrote:
> 20-08-2009 o 01:19:24 Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What would be a time efficient way to count the number of occurrences of
> > elements of sequence A in sequence B? (in this particular case, these
> > sequences are strings, if that matters).
>
> If you mean: to count occurences of each element of A (separately) in B...
>
> Hm, maybe something like this:
>
> # result as a dict {<element of A>: <how many occurences in B>, ...}
> dict((element, B.count(element)) for element in A)
>
> If you mean: to count non overlaping occurences of string A in B
> -- simply:
>
> B.count(A)
>
> Regards,
> *j
>
> --
> Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <z...@chopin.edu.pl>
You don't want to use count() in a case like this because it iterates
through B len(A) times, i.e. this algorithm is O(A x B).
If all you want is the total you can do it like this:
def f(a, b):
a = set(a)
return sum(item in a for item in b)
A = 'some string'
B = 'another string'
print f(A, B) # prints 12
If you want to know the count for each element you can use this:
from collections import defaultdict
def g(a, b):
a = set(a)
d = defaultdict(int)
for item in b:
if item in a:
d[item] += 1
return d
print g(A, B)
# prints defaultdict(<type 'int'>, {' ': 1, 'e': 1, 'g': 1, 'i': 1,
'o': 1, 'n': 2, 's': 1, 'r': 2, 't': 2})
HTH,
~Simon
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