Adding elements of a list into a dictionary using .get() method

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I have a list of elements [1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8]. I want to put it into a dictionary so it would go "key : how many times it appears in the list", so the dictionary looks something like as follows:

{"1:1", "2:2", "5:2", "3:1", "7:1", "8:1"}

The solution should be applicable to any list.

I did the iteration of the list, but am receiving an error when it comes to adding the elements into the dictionary.

given = (1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8)
midwayDict = dict()
for element in given:
    midwayDict = midwayDict.get(element, 0)
print(midwayDict)

All it gives me is " AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'get' ". Is something wrong with the method I'm using? or should I use a different way?

I saw this being used somewhere a while ago, but I am not being able to find where of how exactly to do this.

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2 Answers

The error in your code is

given = (1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8)
midwayDict = dict()
for element in given:
    midwayDict = midwayDict.get(element, 0)  # <- you are assigning 0 to dict so in next iteration you are accessing .get method on integer so its saying there is no get method on int object
print(midwayDict)

Should be

given = (1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8)
midwayDict = dict()
for element in given:
    _ = midwayDict.setdefault(element, 0)
    midwayDict[element] += 1
print(midwayDict)

Better is

from collections import Counter
given = (1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8)
print(Counter(given))
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There is only one error in your code.

given = (1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8)
midwayDict = dict()
for element in set(given):
    midwayDict[element] = midwayDict.get(element, 0)+1 # edited
print(midwayDict)

The better way to do this is by using dictionary comprehension.

given = (1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8)

d = {a:given.count(a) for a in set(given)}
print(d)
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