On 4/23/2013 7:45 AM, Blind Anagram wrote:
I then wondered why count for lists has no limits
Probably because no one has asked for such, as least partly because it is not really needed. In any case, .count(s) is a generic method. It is part of the definition of a Sequence. It can also be implemented for non-sequence collections, such as a Tree class, that allow multiple occurrences of an item.
> whereas count for other objects (e.g. strings) has these. Strings (of unicode or bytes) are exceptional in multiple ways. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
