Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
The counts/counter moniker emerged from the python-dev discussion and I'm basically happy with it since the typical usage is c=Counter(myseq) with no other non-dict accesses (mostly just c[elem]+=1 and print c[elem]). It's a simple counter with a dict interface so the name shouldn't suggest anything more complicated than that. To me, MultiSet or CountingSet is too offputtingly computer-sciency and misleadingly suggests a set-like API instead of a dict interface. I know several programmers who don't know the terms, bag or multiset, but they intuitively understand what a counter does. Am open to calling it a Bag but I rather like the self-descriptiveness and simplicity of Counter. As noted previously, standalone unittests are forthcoming (and a doc patch). Wanted to get the API and sample use cases worked-out first. Thanks for looking at the initial patch. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1696199> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
