[issue6893] defaultdict example in py3 doc should mention the new Counter class

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This example needs to stay. It was one of the principal motiviating use cases for defaultdict and it is a good, simple, understandable example of how to use it. Also, I don't want to cross-link these two tools because they a subtly different (the default

[issue6893] defaultdict example in py3 doc should mention the new Counter class

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[issue6893] defaultdict example in py3 doc should mention the new Counter class

New submission from Ezio Melotti : The 3rd example of defaultdict [1] shows how to use it to count the letters of a string, but the new Counter class is a better tool for doing that. Possible solutions: 1) "Setting the default_factory to int makes the defaultdict useful for counting (like a bag