New submission from Anthony Flury <anthony.fl...@btinternet.com>:
The first example given for collections.Counter is misleading - the
documentation ideally should show the 'best' (one and only one) way to do
something and the example is this :
>>> # Tally occurrences of words in a list
>>> cnt = Counter()
>>> for word in ['red', 'blue', 'red', 'green', 'blue', 'blue']:
... cnt[word] += 1
>>> cnt
Counter({'blue': 3, 'red': 2, 'green': 1})
clearly this could simply be :
>>> # Tally occurrences of words in a list
>>> cnt = Counter(['red', 'blue', 'red', 'green', 'blue', 'blue'])
>>> cnt
Counter({'blue': 3, 'red': 2, 'green': 1})
(i.e. the iteration through the array is unneeded in this example).
The 2nd example is better in showing the 'entry-level' use of the Counter class.
There possibly does need to be a simple example of when you might manually
increment the Counter class - but I don't think that the examples given
illustrate that in a useful way; and I personally haven't come across a
use-case for manually incrementing the Counter class entires that couldn't be
accomplished with a comprehension or generator expression passed directly to
the Counter constructor.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 311630
nosy: anthony-flury, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: collections.counter examples are misleading
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6
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