Cheryl Sabella <chek...@gmail.com> added the comment:
You know, I'm not sure if I had ever seen that example before. When you click
Counter at the top of the page, it goes right to the class definition, which is
past the example.
Having said that, I really like the example. Until now, I didn't realize what
Raymond said above about Counters (that the core ability is to write c['x'] +=
1 without a KeyError). So, thanks to this report, I learned that today!
One thing that did surprise me in the example is that I expected the repr to be
in insertion order in 3.7. The class description says 'It is an unordered
collection where elements are stored as dictionary keys' and I was wondering if
that was still true since dicts now have a guaranteed order. I tried it on the
example, which still printed Counter({'blue': 3, 'red': 2, 'green': 1})! Of
course it makes sense after looking at the code because it calls `most_common`
in the repr, but I hadn't realized that before. So, two things learned about
Counter today. :-)
Anyway, writing this here to ask about the wording regarding 'unordered
collection'.
Thanks!
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nosy: +csabella
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