nDimensional sparse histogram in python.

[Alex Martelli]

KraftDiner <bobrien18 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Cool.
> Ok so my histogram class had two methods 1) To increment a point and 2)
> to get the point.
> 
> def class histo:
>    def __init__(self):
>        histo = {}
> def update(point):
>    '''searches the dictionary for point and if it exists increment the
> value.
>     if it doesn't exist set the value to 1'''

def update(self, point):
  self.histo[point] = 1 + self.histo.get(point, 0)

> 
> def get(point):

def (self, point):

actually.

>    return self.histo[point]
> 
> I'm not sure how to code up the update routine...

See above.


Alex