[Tutor] Dictionary Issue

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/08/2015 18:17, Ltc Hotspot wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On 06/08/2015 05:22, Ltc Hotspot wrote:
>>
>> Please don't top post here, it makes following long threads difficult.
>>
>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Replace  count[address]= count.get(address,0) +1 with  c =
>>> Counter(['address'])?
>>>
>>
>> Try it at the interactive prompt and see what happens.
>>
>> How do I define counter,view trace back:
>>
>> NameError
>> Traceback (most recent call last)
>> C:\Users\vm\Desktop\apps\docs\Python\new.txt in <module>()
>>        1 fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
>>        2 handle = open (fname, 'r')
>> ----> 3 c = Counter(['address'])
>>        4
>>        5
>>
> NameError: name 'Counter' is not defined
>
>
> View revised code here:
>
> fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
> handle = open (fname, 'r')
> c = Counter(['address'])
>
> count = dict ()
> maxval = None
> maxkee = None
>
> for kee, val in count.items():
>          maxval = val
>          maxkee = kee
>
> for line in handle:
>      if line.startswith("From: "):
>          address = line.split()[1]
>          count[address]= count.get(address,0) +1
> print maxkee and maxval
>

You obviously haven't bothered to read the link I gave you about the 
Counter class so I give up.

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Mark Lawrence