New submission from Mital Ashok <mital.v...@googlemail.com>:
There's no reason that `count('', 'a')` for `'', 'a', 'aa', ...` or `count((),
(1,))` for `(), (1,), (1, 1), ...` shouldn't work.
count(a, b) should be equivalent to accumulate(chain((a,), repeat(b)))
The docs don't strongly suggest that it won't work (it says *start* is a
number, but the "roughly equivalent to" generator would work for str/tuple/etc)
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 412095
nosy: Mital Ashok
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: itertools.count should work with non-number types
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.11
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