Steven D'Aprano added the comment: It seems to me that the basic Counter class should be left as-is, and if there are specialized methods used for statistics (such as normalize) it should go into a subclass in the statistics module.
The statistics module already uses Counter internally to calculate the mode. It makes some sense to me for statistics to have a FrequencyTable (and CumulativeFrequencyTable?) class built on top of Counter. I don't think it makes sense to overload the collections.Counter type with these sorts of specialised methods. ---------- nosy: +steven.daprano _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25478> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
