Justin Peel <pee...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I've done as Antoine asked and made a pure Python PyCounter class and a
C-enhanced Counter class that both use the mixin CounterBase class. I also
added to the tests so that both PyCounter and Counter are tested. I left the
update_fromsubs() method in Counter for now, but haven't made a Python
equivalent function for PyCounter in case the method is rejected.
Also, I realized that my build was still in debug mode so those benchmark
weren't quite accurate (Oops). The Counter class is only 4-6x faster for most
cases. That's still good, but not quite as good as I'd previously reported.
Lastly, I thought of one more method that could be quite useful. Say that you
have a list like [('apples',4),('oranges',5),('apples',8)] where the second
element in each tuple indicates how many of them there are. The resultant
Counter should have {'apples': 12, 'oranges':5}. We don't really have a good
way to count this, but we could add a small method like the following:
def fromitems(self, items):
for key, value in items:
self[key] += value
and I could easily make a C function for it. I think that this simple method
could be very useful to some people. What do you all think of this addition?
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20004/counterpatch2.diff
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