On 4/7/07, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a patch implementing collections.counts() as suggested above:
The name doesn't make it obvious to me what's going on. Maybe countunique()? Some other options are countdistinct() and countduplicates(). > >>> items = 'acabbacba' > >>> item_counts = counts(items) > >>> for item in 'abcd': > ... print item, item_counts[item] > ... > a 4 > b 3 > c 2 > d 0 Would become: >>> items = 'acabbacba' >>> counts = countunique(items) >>> for item in 'abcd': ... print item, counts[item] ... a 4 b 3 c 2 d 0 -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
