The for loop construction in Python easily iterates over a collection of items. Here’s what you need to know to use it well.

So I'm not a programmer, I took a few classes ages ago, but there are some Python scripts in use on the servers here so I figured I'd start. What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of ...

else:. counts[item] = 1. Using the collections module, you can do the same with much less code. from collections import Counter. counts = Counter(items) Just one line, and it does everything for you.