Counter
Learn about the Counter object for counting items in the Python dictionary.
Overview
You’d think that algorithms could not get much simpler than
using defaultdict(int). The I want to count specific instances in an iterable use case is common enough that the Python developers created a specific class for this exact purpose, simplifying things further. The previous code that counts characters in a string can easily be calculated in a single line:
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