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Created July 5, 2011 19:20
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Python count items in a list
# count-list-items-1.py
wordstring = 'it was the best of times it was the worst of times '
wordstring += 'it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness'
wordlist = wordstring.split()
wordfreq = []
for w in wordlist:
wordfreq.append(wordlist.count(w))
print "String\n" + wordstring +"\n"
print "List\n" + str(wordlist) + "\n"
print "Frequencies\n" + str(wordfreq) + "\n"
print "Pairs\n" + str(zip(wordlist, wordfreq))
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I receive this message when I attempt pair the wordlist with the wordfreq: zip object at 0x7fc040754948

What does this mean?

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