1.
def get_counts(data):
    """
		Count how many times each item occurs in the
    sequence data
	"""
		counts = {}
    
    for d in data:
        if d in counts:
            counts[d] += 1
        else:
            counts[d] = 1
        
    return counts

2.
def print_counts(counts):
    """
		print out the counts from a dictionary, tab delimited
		"""
    for key in counts:
        print str(key) + "\t" + str(counts[key])