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Understanding the Context

Once whiteflies make themselves at home, your indoor plants lose their healthy glow and end up with limp leaves and a sticky coating that no one wants to see. These tiny insects hide on the undersides ... Here the get method finds a key entry for 'e' and finds its value which is 1. We add this to the other 1 in characters.get (character, 0) + 1 and get 2 as result.

Key Insights

As you have found, get just gets the value corresponding to a given key. sorted will iterate through the iterable it's passed. In this case that iterable is a dict, and iterating through a dict just iterates through its keys. If you want to sort based on the values instead, you need to transform the keys to their corresponding values, and of course the obvious way to do this is with get. To ...

Final Thoughts

get and set are accessors, meaning they're able to access data and info in private fields (usually from a backing field) and usually do so from public properties (as you can see in the above example). There's no denying that the above statement is pretty confusing, so let's go into some examples. Let's say this code is referring to genres of music.