Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis...@gmail.com> added the comment:

How is Counter(numbers, key=abs) any better than Counter(map(abs, numbers))?

It seems to me that "apply a function to each thing" (map) and "count the 
numbers of each thing" (Counter) are two orthogonal concepts, and there's no 
reason to entangle them. Their composition as "count the number of things with 
each function value" is probably better as a composition of two simple things 
rather than lumped together. I believe this is related to why PEP 455 was 
rejected.

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