import collections print collections.Counter() print collections.Counter('gallahad') c = collections.Counter({'red': 4, 'blue': 2}) print c print c['green'] print c c['green'] = 0 print c print print x = collections.Counter('hello world!') print x for i in 'hello universe!': x[i] += 1 print x l = list(x.elements()) l.sort() print l print x.most_common(2) print x.most_common() a = collections.Counter({1:6, 2:4, 3:3}) print a a.subtract({1:5, 2:-2, 4:7}) print a a.subtract([1, 1]) print a a.subtract(collections.Counter({1:-8, 3:2})) print a a.update({1:5, 2:-2, 4:7}) print a a.update([1, 1]) print a a.update(collections.Counter({1:-8, 3:2})) print a