[issue14182] collections.Counter equality test thrown-off by zero counts

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>:

>>> from collections import Counter
>>> x=Counter(a=10,b=0,c=3)
>>> y=Counter(a=10,c=3)
>>> x == y
False
>>> all(x[k]==y[k] for k in set(x) | set(y))
True

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assignee: rhettinger
components: Library (Lib)
messages: 154827
nosy: rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: collections.Counter equality test thrown-off by zero counts
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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