On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Pavlos Parissis <pavlos.paris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to store values for metrics and return the average for some > and the sum for the rest. Thus, I thought I could extend > collections.Counter class by returning averages for some keys.
Leave Counter out of it, as this is not what it's designed for. Write a custom Metrics class, with each attribute being a pseudo-collection that maintains a sum or average. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list