[Python-Dev] function for counting items in a sequence (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Apr 8 04:00:42 CEST 2007

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).

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