In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Nelson wrote: > This is exactly what I want to do: every time I encounter this kind of > value in my code, increment the appropriate type by one. Then I'd like > to go back and find out how many of each type there were. This way > I've written seems simple enough and effective, but it's very ugly and > I don't think it's the intended use of lists. Does anyone know a > cleaner way to have the same funtionality?
How about this: map = {} def increment(value): map[value] = map.get(value, 0) + 1 ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list