[Python-Dev] function for counting items in a sequence (original) (raw)
Kevin Jacobs jacobs@bioinformed.com bioinformed at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 05:12:21 CEST 2007
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On 4/7/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
On 4/7/07, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/7/07, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote: > > Here's a patch implementing collections.counts() as suggested above: > > The name doesn't make it obvious to me what's going on. Maybe > countunique()? Some other options are countdistinct() and > countduplicates(). -1. I like the name that Steve proposed just fine; "counts" perfectly explain that it produces counts of items. If there couldn't be duplicates then "counts" wouldn't make sense since the only outcomes would be True or False (present or not).
I call that function 'tally'.
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