Tag: count

How to count the number of times a specific character appears in a list?

Okay so here is a list: I want to be able to count the total number of times a user inputted letter appears throughout the entire list. Let’s say the letter is ‘a’ I want the program to go through and count the number of times ‘a’ appears in the list. In this case, the total number of ‘a’ in

Count consecutive characters

How would I count consecutive characters in Python to see the number of times each unique digit repeats before the next unique digit? At first, I thought I could do something like: So that in this manner I could see the number of times each unique digit repeats. But this, of course, falls out of range when i reaches the

Counting word frequency and making a dictionary from it

I want to take every word from a text file, and count the word frequency in a dictionary. Example: ‘this is the textfile, and it is used to take words and count’ I am not that far, but I just can’t see how to complete it. My code so far: Answer If you don’t want to use collections.Counter, you can

How to get the number of active threads started by specific class?

code looks like below: class workers1(Thread): def __init__(self): Thread.__init__(self) def run(self): # …do some stuff class workers2(Thread): def __init__(self): …