Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > (I'm just a hobbyist, so if this suggestion clashes with some well > established use of 'Bag' in CS terminology, well, never mind.)
Yep: a Bag is a more common and neater name for a "multiset" -- a set-like container which holds each item ``a certain number of times'' (you can alternatively see it as a mapping from items to counts of number of times the item is held). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list