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Stock count
A shop records deliveries (positive) and sales (negative). Print the final stock of each item, in alphabetical order, leaving out items with 0.
Input: n, then n lines "item amount". Output: one line per item: <item> <stock>
Examples
Input
4 apple 10 pear 5 apple -3 pear -5
Output
apple 7
Input
1 pen 1
Output
pen 1
One more test checks other inputs when you press Check.
Stuck? The idea behind dictionaries
A dictionary links keys to values, like words to meanings: ages["Ann"] = 12. Looking up a key is fast, however big it is.
.get(key, 0) gives a default when the key isn't there; looping over a dictionary gives its keys, .items() gives keys and values together.
counts = {}
for word in input().split():
counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
for word, n in counts.items():
print(word, n)Watch for: Reading a key that isn't there stops the program with a KeyError: check with in, or use .get().