[issue20478] Avoid inadvertently special casing Counter in statistics module

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Committed on your behalf Steven, since I'm still not sure if your SSH key has been registered yet. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: test needed -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue20478] Avoid inadvertently special casing Counter in statistics module

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 78d0b7472697 by Nick Coghlan in branch 'default': Issue #20478: avoid special casing Counter in statistics http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/78d0b7472697 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue20478] Avoid inadvertently special casing Counter in statistics module

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: Fix as suggested by Nick, and new test. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33983/counter.patch ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue20478] Avoid inadvertently special casing Counter in statistics module

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[issue20478] Avoid inadvertently special casing Counter in statistics module

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Issue 20479 covers providing tools for efficiently working with weight/frequency mappings in 3.5 (and presumably the statslib PyPI module) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue20478] Avoid inadvertently special casing Counter in statistics module

New submission from Nick Coghlan: As per the python-ideas thread at https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-February/025226.html the statistics.mode() function currently passes its argument directly to the collections.Counter() constructor. This results in Counter() objects being