letter frequency counter / your thoughts..

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On May 7, 1:31 pm, "Ian Kelly" <ian.g.ke... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Paul Melis <p... 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

Sounds like novel flow of control.