[Python-Dev] function for counting items in a sequence (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Apr 9 02:15:20 CEST 2007
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Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Instead of a separate function in collections, it may be sensible to stick with the familiar and provide a dictionary contructor for the commonly encounter use case of counting things:
I don't think that's a good idea. The dict class should restrict itself to being a general-purpose mapping object, and not become a catchall for utility functions that happen to return a dict.
-- Greg
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