collections — Easy Playground

Specialized containers: deque, Counter, defaultdict, OrderedDict, ChainMap, namedtuple

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from collections import Counter, defaultdict

# Counter
words = ["apple", "banana", "apple", "cherry", "banana", "apple"]
c = Counter(words)
print(c)
print(c.most_common(2))

# defaultdict
dd = defaultdict(list)
dd["fruits"].append("apple")
dd["fruits"].append("banana")
print(dict(dd))

Output

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The collections module is part of Python's standard library. Specialized containers: deque, Counter, defaultdict, OrderedDict, ChainMap, namedtuple.

Challenge

Try modifying the code above to explore different behaviors. Can you extend the example to handle a new use case?

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