"Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >The proposed names could possibly be improved (perhaps tally() is more active > >and clear than count()). > > +1 tally()
-1 for count(): Implies an accessor, not a mutator. -1 for tally(): Unfriendly to non-native english speakers. +0.5 for add, increment. If incrementing a negative is unacceptable, how about update/updateby/updateBy ? +1 for accumulate. I don't think that separating the two cases -- adding to a scalar or appending to a list -- is that essential; a self-respecting program should make this obvious by the name of the parameter anyway ("dictionary.accumulate('hello', words)" vs "a.accumulate('hello', b)"). George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list