Using Counter(), I want to do a binary count of variables in a list. So instead of getting the count for each variable, I would simply like to have a Counter() variable, in which all values are one.
So for a given list:
data = [1,2,3,4,5,62,3,4,5,1]
I want the output to be:
Counter({1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 1, 4: 1, 5: 1, 62: 1})
Instead of:
Counter({1: 2, 2: 1, 3: 2, 4: 2, 5: 2, 62: 1})
I am aware that I could loop through the Counter:
binary_count = {x: 1 for x in Counter(data)}
However, that does require looping through the dictionary once and seems unnecessary to me.
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Answer
This isn’t what a Counter is for, so whatever you do will require modifying the output.
Why not just not use a Counter to begin with? This should be trivial with a regular dict.
Heck, you can even just use dict.fromkeys, so:
>>> data = [1,2,3,4,5,62,3,4,5,1]
>>> dict.fromkeys(data, 1)
{1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 1, 4: 1, 5: 1, 62: 1}