James Mills wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:22 AM, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote:
(snip)
The "crawl through the shrubbery looking for evidence" approach
stumbles on the actual code:
Yes I found his implementation soon after :)
Not bad actually... I wonder why bag() isn't
shipped with the std lib - perhaps in teh set
module ?
Occasionally someone posts here wanting to count items and solutions
involving dict or defaultdict are suggested, and I think that a 'bag'
class would be useful. The 'set' class was introduced first in a module,
but it soon became a builtin. My posting was intended a possible
reference implementation.
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