On Tue, Feb 5, 2013, at 04:37 PM, darnold wrote: > On Feb 5, 2:19 pm, maiden129 <sengokubasarafe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How to reverse the two loops? > > > > s=input("Enter a string, eg(4856w23874): ") > > checkS=['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9'] > > for digit in checkS: > t = s.count(digit) > if t == 0: > pass > elif t == 1: > print(digit,"occurs 1 time.") > else: > print(digit, "occurs", t,"times.") > > > >>> > Enter a string, eg(4856w23874): 23493049weee2039412367 > 0 occurs 2 times. > 1 occurs 1 time. > 2 occurs 3 times. > 3 occurs 4 times. > 4 occurs 3 times. > 6 occurs 1 time. > 7 occurs 1 time. > 9 occurs 3 times. > >>>
Although that implementation also scans the string 10 times (s.count()), which may not be as efficient (although it is happening in C, so perhaps not). A better solution involves only scanning the string once. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list