cleaning up and organizing old problems (builtin)

src/USEFUL/basic_examples/example_defaultdict.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+__author__ = "bt3"
+
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+def  defaultdict_example():
+    ''' show some examples for defaultdicts '''
+    pairs = {('a', 1), ('b',2), ('c',3)}
+
+    d1 = {}
+    for key, value in pairs:
+        if key not in d1:
+            d1[key] = []
+        d1[key].append(value)
+    print(d1)
+
+    d2 = defaultdict(list)
+    for key, value in pairs:
+        d2[key].append(value)
+    print(d2)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    defaultdict_example()
+
+