On 18 December 2017 at 23:51, Joel Croteau <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be useful in many scenarios for values in collections.Counter to be
> allowed to be floating point.
Do you have any evidence of this? Code examples that would be
significantly improved by such a change? I can't think of any myself.
I might consider writing
totals - defaultdict(float)
for ...:
totals[something] = calculation(something)
but using a counter is neither noticeably easier, nor clearer...
One way of demonstrating such a need would be if your proposed
behaviour were available on PyPI and getting used a lot - I'm not
aware of any such module if it is.
Paul
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