[Tutor] Counting Items in a List

[Alan Gauld]

On 20/06/12 16:20, Martin A. Brown wrote:

>   : should have written something like "counting how many times each
>   : word occured" insted of "counting words".
>
> You might like to try out collections.defaultdict().

Even a standard dict would simplify the code dramatically.
The defaultdict does suit this case better though.

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