Searching and manipulating lists of tuples

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Steve Holden  <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>def algorith(d, s):
>     if s in d:
>         d[s] += 1
>     else:
>         d[s] = 1

def algorith(d, s):
    d[s] = d.get(s, 0) + 1

And the OP should note that converting between dict d and list of
pairs L is simply a matter of L = d.items() and d = dict(L) (assuming
some other part of the program wants that list representation).

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