Ultimately it probably doesn't have a safe. get method because a dict is an associative collection (values are associated with names) where it is inefficient to check if a key is present (and return its value) Ò€¦ The 'get' lets you treat a class method, as if it were a simple property in an object. If you leave off the 'get', you can still access the value by calling. area () instead of just. area

We add this to the other 1 in characters. get (character, 0) + 1 and get 2 as result.