Summing the contents of two collections.Counter() objects [duplicate]
This question already has an answer here: Is there any pythonic way to combine two dicts (adding values for keys that appear in both)? 18 answers I am working with collections.Counter() counters. I would like to combine two of them in a meaningful manner. Suppose I have 2 counters, say, Counter({'menu': 20, 'good': 15, 'happy': 10, 'bar': 5}) and Counter({'menu': 1, 'good': 1, 'bar': 3}) I am trying to end up with: Counter({'menu': 21, 'good': 16, 'happy': 10,'bar': 8}) How can I do this? All you need to do is add them: >>> from collections import Counter >>> a = Counter({'menu': 20, 'good':