Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Maybe you should propose it in python-dev -- it does seem a reasonable utility addition to the collections module, after all. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
