Issue with my code

[maiden129]

How to reverse the two loops?

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:43:47 PM UTC-5, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 02:20 PM, maiden129 wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:56:55 PM UTC-5, marduk wrote:
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> >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013, at 01:38 PM, maiden129 wrote:
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> <Snipping double-spaced googlegroups trash>
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> > when I removed "s.remove(i), it starts to repeat the number of occurrences too
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> > many times like this:
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> > 2 occurs 3 times.
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> > 2 occurs 3 times.
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> > 3 occurs 3 times.
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> > 3 occurs 3 times.
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> > 2 occurs 3 times.
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> > 2 occurs 3 times.
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> > 5 occurs 1 time.
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> > 3 occurs 3 times.
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> > 3 occurs 3 times.
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> > 4 occurs 1 time.
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> > 3 occurs 3 times.
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> > 3 occurs 3 times.
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> > 1 occurs 1 time.
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> > 2 occurs 3 times.
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> > 2 occurs 3 times.
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> > How can I stop this?
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> As MRAB pointed out, don't delete items from a list you're iterating 
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> over.  It can make the iterator go nuts.  He suggests the collections 
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> module.
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> But if you want to do it by hand, one approach is to reverse the two 
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> loops.  Iterate over the characters in CheckS list, examining the entire 
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> s list for each one and figuring out how many times the character occurs.
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> Another approach is to build a dict, or a defaultdict, to keep counts 
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> for each of the characters in CheckS.
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> -- 
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> DaveA