Instead of a separate function in collections, it may be sensible to stick with
the familiar and provide a dictionary contructor for the commonly encounter use
case of counting things:
@classmethod
def fromcount(cls, iterable):
d = cls()
for elem in iterable:
d[elem] = d.get(elem, 0) + 1
return d
Raymond
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