SilentGhost <michael.mischurow+...@gmail.com> added the comment: I've never meant to suggest any kind of replacement of the Counter with my example. I just tried to show that
self[elem] += 1 # line 430 of collections.py which at initialisation naturally propagates to __missing__ is somewhat slow. and had it been possible to always have key in the Counter, it might have speed up initialisation and/or update ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6370> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com