Re: Counter Class -- Bag/Multiset

On Jan 23, 12:27 am, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > bearophile: > > > Are keys restricted to be long and int values only? Or are they > > general (referenced) objects + a control of their integral nature? > > Here I meant values, sorry. > Also: what's the rationale of allowing negative values to

Re: Counter Class -- Bag/Multiset

On Jan 22, 5:54 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > Giovanni Bajo writes: > > * I'm not a native speaker, but why use the word "Counter"? > > I agree with this, the new functionality is welcome but I think > the traditional term "multiset" or "bag" would have been better. The t

Re: Counter Class -- Bag/Multiset

On Jan 22, 5:41 pm, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > * I find it *very* confusing c.items() vs c.elements(). Items and > elements are synonymous (again, in my understanding of English). Would have used the term "items" but that term has a different meaning in the context of dictionaries where "items" means