On Nov 6, 2014 10:51 AM, "Ian Kelly" wrote:
>
> On Nov 6, 2014 1:06 AM, "Rustom Mody" wrote:
> > Calling a bag as counter is inappropriate for an analogous reason
> > to why calling a dictionary as a 'hash' is inappropriate --
> > it confuses an implementation detail for fundamental semantics.
>
On Nov 6, 2014 1:06 AM, "Rustom Mody" wrote:
> In studying (somewhat theoretically) the general world of
> collection data structures we see
> - sets -- neither order nor repetition
> - bags -- no order, repetition significant
> - lists -- both order and repetition
>
> Sometimes 'bag' is called
On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 9:57:08 PM UTC+5:30, Ethan Furman wrote:
> In order to avoid unnecessary code churn (the fix itself is quite simple),
> the maintainer of the collections module
> wants to know if anybody has actually been affected by these inconsistencies,
> and if so, whether it
Ethan Furman wrote:
> I'm looking for real-world uses of collections.Counter, specifically to
> see if anyone has been surprised by, or had to spend extra-time debugging,
> issues with the in-place operators.
>
> Background:
>
> Most Python data types will cause a TypeError to be raised if unusa
I'm looking for real-world uses of collections.Counter, specifically to see if anyone has been surprised by, or had to
spend extra-time debugging, issues with the in-place operators.
Background:
Most Python data types will cause a TypeError to be raised if unusable types
are passed in:
--> {'
