Re: [Python-ideas] Support floating-point values in collections.Counter

2017-12-19 Thread Joel Croteau
ay-to-tackle-float-counter-values-in-python On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:08 AM Paul Moore wrote: > On 18 December 2017 at 23:51, Joel Croteau wrote: > > It would be useful in many scenarios for values in collections.Counter > to be > > allowed to be floating point. > > Do yo

[Python-ideas] Support floating-point values in collections.Counter

2017-12-18 Thread Joel Croteau
It would be useful in many scenarios for values in collections.Counter to be allowed to be floating point. I know that Counter nominally emulates a multiset, which would suggest only integer values, but in a more general sense, it could be an accumulator of either floating point or integer data. As