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Counting the keys of a Mapping isn't possible with collections.Counter but we can count the values: from collections import Counter adict = {'a': 5, 'b': 3, 'c': 5, 'd': 2, 'e':2, 'q': 5} Counter(adict.values()) # Out: Counter({2: 2, 3: 1, 5: 3}) The most common elements are avaiable by the m...

alist = [1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 4] alist.count(1) # Out: 3 atuple = ('bear', 'weasel', 'bear', 'frog') atuple.count('bear') # Out: 2 atuple.count('fox') # Out: 0

astring = 'thisisashorttext' astring.count('t') # Out: 4 This works even for substrings longer than one character: astring.count('th') # Out: 1 astring.count('is') # Out: 2 astring.count('text') # Out: 1 which would not be possible with collections.Counter which only counts single char...

var favoriteColors: Set = ["Red", "Blue", "Green"] //favoriteColors = {"Blue", "Green", "Red"} You can use the contains(_:) method to check whether a set contains a value. It will return true if the set contains that value. if favorite...

Anonymous functions are functions that are defined but not assigned a name. The following is an anonymous function that takes in two integers and returns the sum. (x: Int, y: Int) => x + y The resultant expression can be assigned to a val: val sum = (x: Int, y: Int) => x + y Anonymous...

To load jQuery from the official CDN, go to the jQuery website. You'll see a list of different versions and formats available. Now, copy the source of the version of jQuery, you want to load. Suppose, you want to load jQuery 2.X, click uncompressed or minified tag which will show you something li...

class MultiIndexingList: def __init__(self, value): self.value = value def __repr__(self): return repr(self.value) def __getitem__(self, item): if isinstance(item, (int, slice)): return self.__class__(self.value[item]) r...

Import the ElementTree object, open the relevant .xml file and get the root tag: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse("yourXMLfile.xml") root = tree.getroot() There are a few ways to search through the tree. First is by iteration: for child in root: print(child.ta...

When a function is declared, variables in the context of its declaration are captured in its scope. For example, in the code below, the variable x is bound to a value in the outer scope, and then the reference to x is captured in the context of bar: var x = 4; // declaration in outer scope funct...

By default, a Date object is created as local time. This is not always desirable, for example when communicating a date between a server and a client that do not reside in the same timezone. In this scenario, one doesn't want to worry about timezones at all until the date needs to be displayed in lo...

Java SE 7 As the try-catch-final statement example illustrates, resource cleanup using a finally clause requires a significant amount of "boiler-plate" code to implement the edge-cases correctly. Java 7 provides a much simpler way to deal with this problem in the form of the try-with-res...

Final classes When used in a class declaration, the final modifier prevents other classes from being declared that extend the class. A final class is a "leaf" class in the inheritance class hierarchy. // This declares a final class final class MyFinalClass { /* some code */ } ...

The and-operator (&&) and the or-operator (||) employ short-circuiting to prevent unnecessary work if the outcome of the operation does not change with the extra work. In x && y, y will not be evaluated if x evaluates to false, because the whole expression is guaranteed to be false....

A dictionary is an example of a key value store also known as Mapping in Python. It allows you to store and retrieve elements by referencing a key. As dictionaries are referenced by key, they have very fast lookups. As they are primarily used for referencing items by key, they are not sorted. crea...

The $_SESSION variable is an array, and you can retrieve or manipulate it like a normal array. <?php // Starting the session session_start(); // Storing the value in session $_SESSION['id'] = 342; // conditional usage of session values that may have been set in a previous session if(!i...

Parameters can be used for returning one or more values; those parameters are required to be non-const pointers or references. References: void calculate(int a, int b, int& c, int& d, int& e, int& f) { c = a + b; d = a - b; e = a * b; f = a / b; } Pointers: ...

C++11 The type std::tuple can bundle any number of values, potentially including values of different types, into a single return object: std::tuple<int, int, int, int> foo(int a, int b) { // or auto (C++14) return std::make_tuple(a + b, a - b, a * b, a / b); } In C++17, a braced init...

C++11 The container std::array can bundle together a fixed number of return values. This number has to be known at compile-time and all return values have to be of the same type: std::array<int, 4> bar(int a, int b) { return { a + b, a - b, a * b, a / b }; } This replaces c style ar...

var fs = require('fs'); // Save the string "Hello world!" in a file called "hello.txt" in // the directory "/tmp" using the default encoding (utf8). // This operation will be completed in background and the callback // will be called when it is either done or fail...

Use the filesystem module for all file operations: const fs = require('fs'); With Encoding In this example, read hello.txt from the directory /tmp. This operation will be completed in the background and the callback occurs on completion or failure: fs.readFile('/tmp/hello.txt', { encoding: '...