More Pythonic way of counting things in a heavily nested defaultdict

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My code currently has to count things in a heavily nested dict into another. I have items that need to be indexed by 3 values and then counted. So, before my loop, I initialize a nested defaultdict like:

from collections import defaultdict

type_to_count_dic = defaultdict(
        lambda: defaultdict(
            lambda: defaultdict(int)
        )
    )

Which allows me to count the items within a tight loop like so:

for a in ...:
    for b in ...:
        for c in ...:
            type_to_count_dic[a][b][c] += 1

Can anyone help me with a more idiomatic/Pythonic way of doing something like this?

Jun 20, 2019 in Python by ana1504.k
• 7,910 points
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1 answer to this question.

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You can try the following, this might help you:

from collections import defaultdict

class _defaultdict(defaultdict):
    def __add__(self, other):
        return other

def CountTree():
    return _defaultdict(CountTree)

>>> t = CountTree()
>>> t['a']
defaultdict(<function CountTree at 0x9e5c3ac>, {})
>>> t['a']['b']['c'] += 1
>>> print t['a']['b']['c']
1
answered Jun 20, 2019 by SDeb
• 13,300 points

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