Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The request sounds ok to me. As in the corner case of negative values, it seems that Counter currently doesn't elide zero values, e.g.:
>>> Counter({'a': 0}) == Counter({}) False Therefore, we should have: >>> Counter({'a': -1}) < Counter({'a': 0}) True but: >>> Counter({'a': -1}) < Counter({}) False (I must admit, the current semantics of Counter look a bit ad hoc and not terribly consistent... halfway between a regular mapping and a multiset) ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22515> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com