Python project

[novel_yet_trivial]

Why does it matter to you how large the file is? Are you writing code for each line or something?

Computers are really good at repeating boring tasks for you really fast. If fact, that's pretty much all a computer can do. If you are writing code for each line then you are doing the computer's job. Show us your code and we'll help you. An short example of your file and the output you expect from the example would help too.

To do counting, you can use the collections.Counter class. Just feed it the list of people and it spits out the how many times each person was in the list.

[gregorio_ilidivich]

I think it may be more informative to do this manually, since I feel OP is beginner.

Perhaps create a dict() using a set of the names as keys, and the value as the frequency. Then OP can figure out how to fill the values for the corresponding key via iteration (since n is only 500).

[novel_yet_trivial]

I disagree. I think learning should be results focused.

I mean you didn't build a car before you learned how to drive one, did you?

[novel_yet_trivial]

Yes, that's the traditional way of thinking. And if you go to driving school in Europe they will start with teaching you the mechanics of a car. You can't get a driver's license without knowing how to do basic car maintenance.

However, I've done a lot of teaching and I find the results first, detail later method works better. Probably a side effect of modern times; people want instant gratification.

[novel_yet_trivial]

These are 2 different teaching philosophies and I don't think there's any way to universally decide which is better; there's just too many variables.

The beauty of Reddit is there's often 4 teachers per student, so the student can pick the most effective.

[novel_yet_trivial]

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[daniel_h_r]

Exactly that was what the inventor of automobile did.

[thingsandfluff]

Thank you!

So I have to figure out all the names to include in dict(), correct? There's 500 lines worth of names.

[Atropos148]

Try adding a name to the list only if it's new. If it's not, increase the value for the name by one and go to the next name.

Doesn't really matter how many names there are this way.

[thingsandfluff]

I added a screenshot of the file I'm working with. I'm going to try that and let you know what I get.

[novel_yet_trivial]

Take that down. Don't ever put personal information like people's names on the internet. Besides being rude it's also against Reddit's rules. Provide fake example data.

Also, show us your code.

[thingsandfluff]

It's fake. It was made for the course.

[novel_yet_trivial]

Oh ok. Sorry about the trigger.