[Python-Dev] function for counting items in a sequence

[Greg Ewing]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Instead of a separate function in collections, it may be sensible to stick with
> the familiar and provide a dictionary contructor for the commonly encounter use
> case of counting things:

I don't think that's a good idea. The dict class
should restrict itself to being a general-purpose
mapping object, and not become a catchall for
utility functions that happen to return a dict.

--
Greg