Take vengeance on or get even "We'll get them!"; "This time I got him"; - pay back, pay off, fix [informal] Be subject to a specified treatment or analysis "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions "; - receive, find, obtain Acquire as a result of some effort or action "You cannot get water out of a stone "; "Where did she get The news ...

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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.

What is confusing you? You evidently know what .get invoked on a dictionary does, that's what's being called for each key in the dictionary.

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:

172 Ultimately it probably doesn't have a safe .get method because a dict is an associative collection (values are associated with names) where it is inefficient to check if a key is present (and return its value) without throwing an exception, while it is super trivial to avoid exceptions accessing list elements (as the len method is very fast).