Find duplicates in a list and count them ...

[Paul.Scipione at aps.com]

Hi D'Arcy J.M. Cain,

Thank you.  I tried this and my list of 76,979 integers got reduced to a dictionary of 76,963 items, each item listing the integer value from the list, a comma, and a 1.  I think what this is doing is finding all integers from my list that are unique (only one instance of it in the list), instead of creating a dictionary with integers that are not unique, with a count of how many times they occur.  My dictionary should contain only 11 items listing 11 integer values and the number of times they appear in my original list.

Thanks,

Paul J. Scipione
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-----Original Message-----
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain [mailto:darcy at druid.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:50 PM
To: Scipione, Paul (ZP5296)
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Find duplicates in a list and count them ...

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:22:27 -0700
Paul.Scipione at aps.com wrote:
> I'm a newbie to Python.  I have a list which contains integers (about 80,000).  I want to find a quick way to get the numbers that occur in the list more than once, and how many times that number is duplicated in the list.  I've done this right now by looping through the list, getting a number, querying the list to find out how many times the number exists, then writing it to a new list.  On this many records it takes a couple of minutes.  What I am looking for is something in python that can grab this info without looping through a list.

icount = {}
for i in list_of_ints:
    icount[i] = icount.get(i, 0) + 1

Now you have a dictionary of every integer in the list and the count of times it appears.

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