Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Is the feature useful for the broad mass? > > Yes, probably, at least if this kind of feature's inclusion in other > languages and my two recent needs for it are any indication. In other > languages, they are sometimes called bags or multisets.
I use defaultdict(int) all the time, but it's been fairly rare to want to do set operations (union, intersection, difference) on these. I'm not even sure what the intersection should mean. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list