> I patched Objects/listobject.c to support > L.count(value, cmp=None, key=None). > I tested it with the same script above by replacing slist > with built-in list. It worked correctly with this small > test. The patch is below (126 lines, I hope that's not
Great! If you want this change included in Python, you should post it on SourceForge's patch tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470. Optionally, you can also ask if people like the patch on python-dev. But IMHO, the odds of this patch being accepted are slim (borrowing from the example in the last thread): persons.count("olle", key = attergetter("name")) is longer and just barely more readable than sum(1 for x in persons if x.name == "olle")) -- mvh Björn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
