On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: > # If we have not seen this employee name before, add it to the dictionary > # like key value pair: '<Employee Name>': [0, 0] > if not(name in employeeDataDict): > salesCountDict[name] = [0, 0]
Python provides a "not in" operator, which is far superior to parenthesizing the expression. But, even better, you can use a defaultdict to create this automatically - and you could even, with a slight tweak, make use of collections.Counter to do all the work for you. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
