On 4/7/07, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a patch implementing collections.counts() as suggested above:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/1696199
>
> Example usage, from the docstring::
>
> >>> items = 'acabbacba'
> >>> item_counts = counts(items)
> >>> for item in 'abcd':
> ... print item, item_counts[item]
> ...
> a 4
> b 3
> c 2
> d 0
Guido commented in the tracker that it would be worth discussing
whether that last item (``item_counts['d']``) should return 0 (as a
defaultdict would) or raise KeyError (as a dict would).
Anyone have a good motivation for one approach or the other?
STeVe
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