Convert a dictionary to something readable in Python

Question

When I print I get:

Counter({'pit': 6, 'mike': 4, 'andy': 3, 'jose': 2})
<class 'collections.Counter'>

How can I convert the result into:

pit = 6
mike = 4
andy = 3
jose = 2

Or a text file that shows:

 pit    6
 mike   4
 andy   3
 jose   2

This should assist you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3294889/iterating-over-dictionaries-for-loops-in-python — Shmil The Cat, Oct 15 '13 at 20:38

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 20:41

5

for k,v in myCounter.iteritems():
  print "%s = %s" %(k, v)

answered Oct 15 '13 at 20:41

inspectorG4dget

In Python 3.x, simply change `.iteritems()` to `.items()` – Taylor Lopez Oct 02 '15 at 18:54

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 23:01

If you want you can extend dict object and override the __str__() function to something like this :

def __str__(self):
    out = ''
    for k, v in self.iteritems():
        out += "%s\t%s" % (k, v)
    return out

This should output what you want each time, the object is represented or printed.

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