Python Forum
Calculating frequency of items in a dictionary
Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Calculating frequency of items in a dictionary
#1
I have a dictionary called purchases that has the payment method as the key and a dictionary containing payment types and their frequency as the values. Example formatting is as follows:
{'Credit card': {'Grocery': 3, 'Gas': 1, 'Store': 2},
'Debit card': {'Food': 2},
'Check': {'Rent': 1, 'Utilities': 1}, … }
I want to create a new dictionary with the frequency of payment methods as the key and the payment method as the values. Desired output:
[{6: ['Credit card']}, {2: ['Debit card', 'Check']}]
Here's my code so far:
artist_count = {}
for artist in artist_songs.keys():
    if artist in artist_count:
        artist_count[artist] += 1
    else:
        artist_count[artist] = 1
print(artist_count)
Currently, this outputs a dictionary with each unique payment method as a key and 1 as its value. I am having difficulty calculating the frequency of each, as well as switching the keys and the values. (I believe I can use the len function for the former, but I have not had luck with that yet.)

How can I create a new dictionary with the frequency of payment methods as the key and the payment method as the values (using python 3.6)?
Reply


Messages In This Thread
Calculating frequency of items in a dictionary - by markellefultz20 - Nov-27-2019, 01:23 AM

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  how to assign items from a list to a dictionary CompleteNewb 3 1,602 Mar-19-2022, 01:25 AM
Last Post: deanhystad
  finding items/comparison in/with a dictionary AGC 17 7,209 Apr-02-2018, 08:30 PM
Last Post: AGC
  Python find the minimum length of string to differentiate dictionary items zydjohn 3 3,649 Mar-03-2018, 05:23 PM
Last Post: Gribouillis

Forum Jump:

User Panel Messages

Announcements
Announcement #1 8/1/2020
Announcement #2 8/2/2020
Announcement #3 8/6/2020