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Re: dict comprehension question.

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: dict comprehension question.
Date 2012-12-29 18:22 -0500
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On 12/29/2012 4:40 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
> On 12/29/2012 03:15 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:

>> Would this help:
>>
>>      >>> w = [1,2,3,1,2,4,4,5,6,1]
>>      >>> s = set(w)
>>      >>> s
>>      set([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
>>      >>> {x:w.count(x) for x in s}
>>      {1: 3, 2: 2, 3: 1, 4: 2, 5: 1, 6: 1}
>> >>>
>
>
> Indeed, this is much better -- I didn't think of it..

It still turns an O(n) problem into an O(k*n) problem, where k is the 
number of distinct items.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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dict comprehension question. Quint Rankid <qbr567@gmail.com> - 2012-12-29 11:48 -0800
  Re: dict comprehension question. Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-29 14:58 -0500
  Re: dict comprehension question. Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2012-12-29 15:01 -0500
  Re: dict comprehension question. Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2012-12-29 15:09 -0500
  Re: dict comprehension question. Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2012-12-29 15:15 -0500
  Re: dict comprehension question. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-12-29 21:32 +0100
  Re: dict comprehension question. MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-29 20:39 +0000
  Re: dict comprehension question. Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2012-12-29 16:40 -0500
  Re: dict comprehension question. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-29 18:22 -0500
  Re: dict comprehension question. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-29 18:56 -0500
    Re: dict comprehension question. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-01 03:10 +0000
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  Re: dict comprehension question. Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-12-29 18:26 -0600
  Re: dict comprehension question. Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2012-12-29 23:10 -0500

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