Pre-PEP: Dictionary accumulator methods

[Aahz]

In article <mVQ_d.9216$u76.1850 at trndny08>,
Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
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>How about countkey() or tabulate()?

Those rank roughly equal to tally() for me, with a slight edge to these
two for clarity and a slight edge to tally() for conciseness.
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