python - Accessing items in a list -

i collect hashtags coming twitter. reading documentation need entities https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/tweets

"entities": {     "hashtags":[],     "urls":[],     "user_mentions":[] } 

i'm able access entities dict , hashtags list

for line in iter(my_tweet_file)     tweetionary = json.loads(line)     print tweetionary["entities"]     print tweetionary["entities"]["hashtags"] 

but i'm not able parse correctly items inside hashtags list, i'm interested in text values (lin , scot in following example)

[{u'indices': [41, 45], u'text': u'lin'}, {u'indices': [55, 60], u'text': u'scot'}] 

i want populate dictionary of text extracted hashtags list.

thanks, denny

you can nicely using built-in counter():

from collections import counter  extracted = [{u'indices': [41, 45], u'text': u'lin'},              {u'indices': [55, 60], u'text': u'scot'}]  count = counter([d['text'] d in extracted])  #note: python 2.x remove brackets around print statements print(count['lin']) print(count.most_common()) 

output:

1 [('scot', 1), ('lin', 1)]