On 15/12/2015 05:11 μμ, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Pavlos Parissis > <pavlos.paris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to store values for metrics and return the average for some >> and the sum for the rest. Thus, I thought I could extend >> collections.Counter class by returning averages for some keys. > > Leave Counter out of it, as this is not what it's designed for. Write > a custom Metrics class, with each attribute being a pseudo-collection > that maintains a sum or average. >
But then I will have to override a lot of magic methods, right? What is the real problem of extending Counter in the way I did? Cheers, Pavlos
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