Alex Martelli wrote: > If we had a "turn sequence into bag" function somewhere > (and it might be worth having it for other reasons): > > def bagit(seq): > import collections > d = collections.defaultdict(int) > for x in seq: d[x] += 1 > return d
I use this function all the time -- I call it dicttools.count(). I'd love to see this appear in the collections module or somewhere else in the stdlib. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
