[issue39929] dataclasses.asdict will mangle collection.Counter instances

Eric V. Smith added the comment: The asdict API was a mistake, because it's not possible for it to know how to create all possible sub-objects. I can't decide what to do about it. I might just "abandon it in place", by documenting its problems and suggesting it not be used. I should

[issue39929] dataclasses.asdict will mangle collection.Counter instances

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[issue39929] dataclasses.asdict will mangle collection.Counter instances

New submission from bscarlett : I noticed that dataclasses.asdict seems to incorrectly reconstruct collections.Counter objects with the counter values as tuple keys. eg: In [1]: from collections import Counter In [2]: from dataclasses import dataclass, asdict In [3]: c = Counter() In [4]: