letter frequency counter / your thoughts..

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Paul Melis <paul at floorball-flamingos.nl> wrote:
>     dic = {}
>     for letter in strng:
>         if letter not in dic:
>             dic[letter] = 0
>         dic[letter] += 1

As a further refinement, you could use the defaultdict class from the
collections module:

   dic = defaultdict(int)
       for letter in strng:
           dic[letter] += 1