Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> We can return the smallest value from the **table** instead > of the code below. Internally, that does too much work and then throws most of it away. The difference between Counter(data).most_common()[1] and Counter(data).most_common(1) is that the former materializes the entire items iterator into a list and does a full sort, while the latter is memory friendly and makes a single pass with min(). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35892> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
