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
Thanks for that info. I've yet to check the link to the Bag cookbook recipe that Carlos Ribeiro posted for me <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/259174>, but now I definitely will! (When I first learned of Python's set type, I was disappointed there wasn't also a multi-set type.)
Thanks and best,
Brian vdB
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