Counting the Number of keywords in a dictionary in python

Question

I have a list of words in a dictionary with the value = the repetition of the keyword but I only want a list of distinct words so I wanted to count the number of keywords. I

Answer 1

The number of distinct words (i.e. count of entries in the dictionary) can be found using the len() function.

> a = {'foo':42, 'bar':69}
> len(a)
2

To get all the distinct words (i.e. the keys), use the .keys() method.

> list(a.keys())
['foo', 'bar']