Here the get method finds a key entry for 'e' and finds its value which is 1. We add this to the other 1 in characters.get (character, 0) + 1 and get 2 as result.

As you have found, get just gets the value corresponding to a given key. sorted will iterate through the iterable it's passed. In this case that iterable is a dict, and iterating through a dict just iterates through its keys. If you want to sort based on the values instead, you need to transform the keys to their corresponding values, and of course the obvious way to do this is with get. To ...

Get the values from the "GET" parameters (JavaScript) [duplicate] Asked 16 years, 11 months ago Modified 3 years, 9 months ago Viewed 2.9m times

Summary: The get keyword will bind an object property to a function. When this property is looked up now the getter function is called. The return value of the getter function then determines which property is returned. Example:

When implementing a get/set pattern, an intermediate variable is used as a container into which a value can be placed and a value extracted. The intermediate variable is usually prefixed with an underscore. this intermediate variable is private in order to ensure that it can only be accessed via its get/set calls.